#parent

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bringing #capable #causing #children #considerably

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#countries #doing #european #european countries #even

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#celebrate #demeaning #dependent #grow #grow up

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#after #bbc #been #capable #doctor

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #attended #had #i #meetings

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone. ↗

— Quintilian

#educated #fathers #highly #i #i do

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

#itself #often #parent #though #vice

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#greatest #parenthood #preserve #remains #single