Famous quotes containing the words man and/or approaching:
“By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.”
—David Blankenhorn (20th century)