#pare

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

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