The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
Rita Rudner
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
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