quotes for parents

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. ~Victor Hugo



A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. ~Gloria Steinem



Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ~Sam Levenson



The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



Time sure flies when you skip an hour. ~Jessi Lane Adams



It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. ~Author Unknown



If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. ~Theodore Dreiser, 1941



Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock. ~Louise A. Belcher



So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton



If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons



If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola. ~From Strangers with Candy



Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ~Philip K. Dick



Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again. ~Chinese inscription cited by Thoreau in Walden



For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. ~Louise Slaughter For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be with thee. ~Psalms 122:8



It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. ~Marcel Proust



No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams



Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day! ~Donna Wilk Cardillo



Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)



For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado. ~Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary