"All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again."

-- Lucille Clifton

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #People Quotes

“Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'”
“You will always be your child's favorite toy.”

Source : "Trouble-free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents on the Go". Book by Vicki Lansky, 1991.
“I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.”
“I'd like to be a song and dance man.”
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”
“The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.”
“I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.”
“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”

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