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Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains,
but
you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.
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The
reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well
Is
that they have a common enemy
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I'm
a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother.
She
calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that
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I
could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio
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Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control
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My mother never saw the
irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch
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Nobody knows of
the work it makes
To keep the home together.
Nobody knows of the steps it takes,
Nobody knows but a Mother.
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The
perfect marriage begins when each person
believes they got better than they deserve.
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Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young.
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A
mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie
for
five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
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Why
are men reluctant to become fathers?
They aren't through being children
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There are three stages of a man's life:
He
believes in Santa Claus,
he
doesn't believe in Santa Claus,
he
is Santa Claus.
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Any
man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
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Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field,
since the payment is pure love.
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Parenthood-The state of being better chaperoned
than you were before marriage
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if
they didn't have anything to do with it.
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The
moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before.
The
woman existed but not the mother. A mother is something absolutely new
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All
women become like their mothers, thats their tragedy.
No
man does, thats his.
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Any
mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease
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A
father may turn his back on his child,
brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies,
husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.
But
a mother's love endures through all.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope
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You
don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child
on
a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around
and
why his parents will always wave back
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A
little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."
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It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.
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If
you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
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No
painter's brush, nor poet's pen, In justice to her fame
Has ever reached half high enough, To write a mother's name.
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A
man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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A
man loves his sweetheart the most,
his
wife the best, but his mother the longest
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The
guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something
perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
The
end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
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A
truly rich man is one whose children run
into
his arms when his hands are empty
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A
father carries pictures where his money used to be
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The
most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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My
mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
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Instant availability without continuous presence
is
probably the best role a mother can play
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You
have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache
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As
a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when
you
will be happy to hear that the phone is for you
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It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are
something teenagers have - or are
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You
can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where
he
came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going
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If
there were no schools to take the children away from home
part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers
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You
know what a condom is? Shame your dad didn't.
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A
mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
It
knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes
down remorselessly all that stands in its path
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