Family/Parenting

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

-- Martin Mull

A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.

-- Navaho saying

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents

Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.

-- Peter Ustinov

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.

-- Yiddish Proverb