#pare

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

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

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 wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary. ↗

— Victor Borge

#i #i wish #making #necessary #parents

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#apparently #delight #heaven #long #men

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#be prepared #catch #distinction #elements #give

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. ↗

— T. Berry Brazelton

#care #deeply #make #mistakes #parents

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#conservative #dentist #guy #i #like

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database