There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

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Homer (; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; possibly born c. 8th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer was highly revered in ancient Greek society...

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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

The only cure for grief is action.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

More quotations tagged with “parents”

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

—Heather Armstrong

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

—Ellen Goodman

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

—Elain Heffner

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.

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11 Jul 2015 Added