(28 quotes found)
“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
“No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.”
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy”
Oscar Wilde
“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.”
“The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.”
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
“I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.”
