anniversary quotes for parents

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I am fond of children - except boys. ~Lewis Carroll



It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. ~Bernard M. Baruch



You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss. ~Author Unknown



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda



The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck



Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson



For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ~Maya Angelou



What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ~Susan Sontag



My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs. ~Bill Vaughan My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott



I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. ~Margaret Trudeau



One of these days is none of these days. ~Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn



Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. ~Ben Irwin



Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987



Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles



There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. ~William Lecky



Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev



I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com