There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: children parenthood feeding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Peter De Vries Peter De Vries (February 27, 1910 – September 28, 1993) was an American editor and novelist known for his satiric wit.
More quotations from Peter De Vries The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: food restaurants murals museums Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Life is a zoo in a jungle. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: life zoo jungle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: food restaurants murals museums Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is a zoo in a jungle. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: life zoo jungle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Tags: television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “parenthood” By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. —Charles Wadsworth More about this quote Tags: time perspective wrong right parenthood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children. —Ray Romano More about this quote Tags: children parenthood sex parenting sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email When all is said and done, the act of being a parent involves a set of radically unselfish and often incomprehensibly inconvenient activities. Two adults who could otherwise employ their time and resources in pleasurable activities of various kinds elect to seek housing and provide food and other facilities for completely dependent organisms whose personal schedules, furthermore, could not be at greater variance with adult ones, and who will involve their parents literally for decades in a compromise between a program of work or pleasure and the requirements of their offspring. It is not altogether remarkable that parents may have one child, if only in error or because of confused expectations of bliss. What is truly remarkable is that most parents have more than one child. —Lionel Tiger More about this quote Tags: children parenthood dependence compromise expectations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. —Charles Wadsworth More about this quote Tags: time perspective wrong right parenthood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children. —Ray Romano More about this quote Tags: children parenthood sex parenting sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When all is said and done, the act of being a parent involves a set of radically unselfish and often incomprehensibly inconvenient activities. Two adults who could otherwise employ their time and resources in pleasurable activities of various kinds elect to seek housing and provide food and other facilities for completely dependent organisms whose personal schedules, furthermore, could not be at greater variance with adult ones, and who will involve their parents literally for decades in a compromise between a program of work or pleasure and the requirements of their offspring. It is not altogether remarkable that parents may have one child, if only in error or because of confused expectations of bliss. What is truly remarkable is that most parents have more than one child. —Lionel Tiger More about this quote Tags: children parenthood dependence compromise expectations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email