Nonparents Quotes & Sayings

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work most people will do, not everyone is cut out for parenthood. And, as many a childless teacher has proved, raising kids is not the only important contribution a person can make to their future. — Virginia Postrel

When men and women across the country reported how happy they felt, researchers found that jugglers were happier than others. By and large, the more roles, the greater the happiness. Parents were happier than nonparents, and workers were happier than nonworkers. Married people were much happier than unmarried people. Married people were generally at the top of the emotional totem pole. — Faye J Crosby

Choose the guy that's going to make you a better girl. — Chelsea Handler

The most important civil liberty ... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death ... — John Howard

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unaveng'd amongst us! — Joseph Addison

Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black. — Mikhail Bulgakov

She has carefully audited her life and found she has no requirement for a husband. — Helen Smith

I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and echoes like those ever fully die away, if somewhere in the woods my father's joyful yelps still bounced quietly off the trees. Silly thought, but there you go. — Harlan Coben