“ Looking back, a man really has a more objective feeling about himself as a child than he has about his father or mother. ”
Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography (1913). copy citation
Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
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Source | Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography |
Topic | feelings mother |
Date | 1913 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm |
Context
“I left college and entered the big world owing more than I can express to the training I had received, especially in my own home; but with much else also to learn if I were to become really fitted to do my part in the work that lay ahead for the generation of Americans to which I belonged.
CHAPTER II THE VIGOR OF LIFE
Looking back, a man really has a more objective feeling about himself as a child than he has about his father or mother. He feels as if that child were not the present he, individually, but an ancestor; just as much an ancestor as either of his parents. The saying that the child is the father to the man may be taken in a sense almost the reverse of that usually given to it.”
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