Parents Born

Famous quotes containing the words parents and/or born:

“We do the same thing to parents that we do to children. We insist that they are some kind of categorical abstraction because they produced a child. They were people before that, and they’re still people in all other areas of their lives. But when it comes to the state of parenthood they are abruptly heir to a whole collection of virtues and feelings that are assigned to them with a fine arbitrary disregard for individuality.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)

“The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)