"you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn."

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Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.52, Clear Press Ltd

Gwen Raverat

#Growing Up Quotes #Parent Quotes #Mind Quotes

“For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.”
“Big thinking precedes great achievement.”
“I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.”
“Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.”

Source : On preparation for the Paris Peace Conference, November 1918.
“There can be no doubt that these attacks are deliberate acts of terrorism, carefully planned and coordinated and as such I condemn them utterly. Terrorism must be fought resolutely wherever it appears.”
“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”

Source : Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press
“God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.”

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