Essie Davis Quotes
Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.
Essie Davis
Quotes to Explore
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
Zach Cregger
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
Edie Falco
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
Larry Page
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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I am a very complicated person.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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It's my tough luck if things happen that are complicated.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
L. Tom Perry
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One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.
Tony Kushner
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~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~
Julia Roberts
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It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.
Virginia Satir
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Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence
William P. Young
