For as long as I could remember, the small cottage on Castro Street had been home. The familiar background was there; Mama, Papa, my only brother, Nels. There was my sister Christine, closest to me in age… But the first awareness was of Mama.
Parents Quotes
(The parents of prodigies) convey enthusiasm without conveying expectation. They reward their children more for trying than winning.
It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
You’re not a good parent, if at some point you are not an embarrassment to your children.
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people’s is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.
My parents have never gone for simple, state-of-the-art lies. They weave bizarre, incredulous tales and stick by them with fierce determination. (formerly Patricia Ann Reagan, regarding what her parents told her about the circumstances of her birth seven months after her parents were married)
Surely nature might find some less irritating way of carrying on business if she would give her mind to it. Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, […]
If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.
