“[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.”
Nora Ephron
“Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.”
Erma Bombeck
“It was one of those things where it was, 'Do you get a pay raise or a break on your retirement?'”
Ken Hughes
“His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.”
Clay Richards
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
Mark Twain
“One way or another, we will have to pay the growing care bill: if we avoid raising more public resources the burden will fall on hard-pressed families.”
Christopher Kelly
“Between you and me, you want to be the only one getting the pay raise, and not everyone else.”
Bruce Steinberg
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