#par

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#by the people #constitutional #creation #defined #families

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#baby #blues #comes #get #like

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#i #list #myself #never #over

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#department #energy #fox #hen #house

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#about #affected #another #century #conventions

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#divorce #divorces #four #i #marriage

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! ↗

— Edmund Waller

#how #part #share #small #sweet

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes. ↗

— John Podesta

#get #go #go home #home #i

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#good #i #kid #nothing #particularly

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#always #closet #daddy #early #father