10 notable quotes by peter de vries
- The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
- Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
- Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.
- There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
- The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
- Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
- We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
- My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
- A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after.
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