“You never know what's coming for you.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
Quotes For Parents page 2
“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist
Source: Homeland and Other Stories
“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
Joyce Carol Oates The Gravedigger's Daughter
Source: The Gravedigger's Daughter
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author
Also quoted in Every Day Is Father's Day: The Best Things Ever Said About Dear Old Dad (1989), p. 150
The Business of Life (1949)
“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.”
Leon Rene Yankwich (1888–1975) United States federal judge
Zipkin v. Mozon (June 1928)
Quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald (2004) p. 108
“Man knows that love is, but not what it is.”
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
Divine Love and Wisdom #1
“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates.
Date unknown
“You see much more of your children once they leave home.”
Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman
Quoted in Carolyn Warner, The Last Word, ch. 16 (1992)
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator
Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3
Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”
Robert Orben (1928) American magician and writer
Cheryl Lavin (June 10, 1991) "Something Weird", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. 1D.
Attributed
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
Leaving the Surface (1968)
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
"Education" http://books.google.com/books?id=iRAWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Respect+the+child+Be+not+too+much+his+parent+Trespass+not+on+his+solitude%22&pg=PA116#v=onepage, Lectures and biographical sketches (1883), p.116
Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
“The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Parents and Children
Essays (1625)
Context: The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.
“So these are changes that are important.”
Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: Today I can’t comment on what the problem is in China, Russia, or Africa without realizing again and again the Diamond Sutra, which says that we look at the world and see it as separate but in fact, this is an illusion, but the reality is that we are one shining being. Until this can be understood, I can’t see any change. But I see some change now. There is a world consciousness. In the "old" New Age, they talked about the Age of Aquarius being an age of enlightenment. And now when a man goes to the moon he sees the earth. Before when someone did meditation he or she could meditate on the earth and the moon but now a man and a woman can see that we are on one planet and that the water is polluted and that the air is dirty. So these are changes that are important. But when we spoke about these things in the 60s people said we were dreamers.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist