To come nearer yet, our own parents by their offences, indiscretion, and intemperance, are our mortal enemies. “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” They cause our grief many times, and put upon us hereditary diseases, inevitable infirmities: they torment us, and we are ready to injure our […]
Parents Quotes
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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, […]
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)
If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.
If your parents didn’t have any children, there’s a good chance that you won’t have any.
Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
I don’t always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hop up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raised poodles.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
We refused to assume – one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle.
