It would be easier to peel off a three-day-old Band-Aid from a hairy kneecap than to remove the patina of Baptist upbringing that coats my psyche. —Mary Ellen Snodgrass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Mary Ellen Snodgrass Mary Ellen Snodgrass (born February 29, 1944) is an American educator and writer of textbooks and general reference works.
More quotations from Mary Ellen Snodgrass Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom — the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure — cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime — much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture. —Mary Ellen Snodgrass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom — the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure — cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime — much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture. —Mary Ellen Snodgrass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email