Famous New Parent Quotes & Sayings

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on. But this is very much the same as if you should be grieved because those who have lived before you did not praise you. — Marcus Aurelius

Nobody really knows what I am," Nyx said. "Not until I put a bullet in their head. — Kameron Hurley

I honestly think people are tired of reading about me. — Jim Edmonds

The lad got over-excited when he saw the whites of the goalpost's eyes. — Steve Coppell

Whatever was bound to happen
in my story did not happen.
But I know there are rules that cannot be broken.
Perhaps a name was changed.
A small mistake. Perhaps
a woman I do not know
is facing the day with the heavy heart
that, by all rights, should have been mine. — Lisel Mueller

This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all those thrumming radiant selves? Here they were, just old enough to have discovered their souls, but not yet dulled by the ordinary act of survival, not yet practiced in dissembling. — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

In the beginning, God ...' (Genesis 1:1).
God comes first. Before anyone else is mentioned, He is there. — Charles Cameron

Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act."
"To be myself, I have to put on an act," Ginny said bitterly.
"What's that mean?"
"It means I don't know who I am. — Philip Pullman

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment. — Voltaire

This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world. — Albert Camus

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia. — Michael Muller

I've never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would. — Nick Saban

Beautiful homes with beautiful flowers — Lailah Gifty Akita