Classic Writing and Parents


What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890


Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
Tom Robbins


When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that exalted, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw "Getting Married" (1908)


Strange Quotes About Parents 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)


The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)


The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

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