{"topic":"parents","quotes":[{"quote":"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.","author":"Alice Walker"},{"quote":"The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.","author":"Anna Quindlen"},{"quote":"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.","author":"Barbara Schapiro"},{"quote":"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.","author":"Bern Williams"},{"quote":"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.","author":"Bertrand Russell"},{"quote":"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.","author":"Calvin Trillin"},{"quote":"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.","author":"Cathy Ladman"},{"quote":"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.","author":"Charles Wadsworth"},{"quote":"Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk"},{"quote":"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.","author":"Clarence Darrow"},{"quote":"There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.","author":"Dick Cavett"},{"quote":"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.","author":"Dorothy C. Fisher"},{"quote":"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.","author":"Elain Heffner"},{"quote":"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.","author":"Ellen Goodman"},{"quote":"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.","author":"Euripides"},{"quote":"Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.","author":"H. R. Schaffer"},{"quote":"Losing a baby is not a thing that you could ever get used to.","author":"Heather Armstrong"},{"quote":"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.","author":"Heather Armstrong"},{"quote":"There is�nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.","author":"Homer"},{"quote":"That�s sort of a clich� about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.","author":"Jill Churchill"},{"quote":"This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.","author":"King Edward VIII"},{"quote":"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold"},{"quote":"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.","author":"Mark Twain"},{"quote":"It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.","author":"Ogden Nash"},{"quote":"It does not always follow that good men are good fathers."},{"quote":"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."},{"quote":"Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son."},{"quote":"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."},{"quote":"Parents are never as bad as kids think they are."},{"quote":"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."}]}