Parentinging Quotes & Sayings

The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don't like it much. They have no gratitude. They would rather be uplifters themselves. But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for years. — Sinclair Lewis

If hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of a meaning to life, it must be a question that burns under their fingernails. — Viktor E. Frankl

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away. — David Levithan

Relationships are a proving ground for love. — Frederick Lenz

Vincent Gallo has put a curse on my colon and a hex on my prostate. He called me a 'fat pig' in the New York Post and told the New York Observer I have 'the physique of a slave-trader.' He is angry at me because I said his 'The Brown Bunny' was the worst movie in the history of the Cannes Film Festival ...
it is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of 'The Brown Bunny.' — Roger Ebert

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. — Alexis De Tocqueville