Quotes & Sayings About Parenting Frustrations

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. — Laurie R. King

The cultured cop! I thought they were peculiar to detective novels. — P.D. James

Current estimates are that 38,000 elephants are being slaughtered each year in Africa. At this rate, elephants on that continent will all be gone in less than twenty years. — Jodi Picoult

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped. — Aimee Bender

She hadn't planned any of this, but her thoughts ran away with her, and she hated how pathetic she must sound. Poor little human needed the big bad angel to rescue her. Yuck. — India Drummond

An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which he would attain nothing - that was what his days on earth held in store for him ... What good was life to him? What prospects did he have? What did he have to strive for? Was he to live merely in order to exist? But a thousand times before he had been ready to give up his existence for an idea, for a hope, even for an imagining. Existence on its own had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more than that. Perhaps it was merely the strength of his own desires that made him believe he was a person to whom more was allowed than others. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They will tell you you're immoral, if you want to be free. — Marty Rubin

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche. — Conor McPherson

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget. — Bill T. Jones