Quotes about "Family & Parenting"

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful. ”

It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers. ”

Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly. ”

There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. ”

All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr. ”

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. ”

I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves. ”

It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us. ”

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it's going to come out how it's going to come out. ”

It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls. ”