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, […]
Parents Quotes
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.
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, “You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.”
