#pare

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. ↗

— John Woolman

#creatures #good #good man #great #his

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard. ↗

— James Worthy

#get #hard #i #parents #played

My parents didn't play golf. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#parents #play #play golf

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#best #embarrassing #everything #hugely #i

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#love #parents #people #permanently #their

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #i do #kids #lot #never

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ↗

— Louis Aragon

#compare #deriving #even #knowledge #perceptible

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

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