We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. When we first bend over the cradle of our own child, God throws back the temple door, and reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father’s and a mother’s love to ourselves. And in later years, when they have gone […]
Parents Quotes
Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, “Do you think we’ll ever find them?” He said,”I don’t know kid. There’s so many places they can hide.”
This is a free country. Within very broad limits, people may live as they wish. And yet, we believe that some ways of living are better than others. Better because they bring more meaning to our lives, to the lives of others, and to our fragile fallible human condition. Marriage and parenthood should be held […]
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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 […]
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.
