Empty Nester Quotes

#1. In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

Bill Cosby

#2. With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn ... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent ... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.

David B. Coe

#3. Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose.

Michael Lee West

#4. For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope ... that God has not abandoned this world.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.

Tom Althouse

#6. My personal style is kind of random; it's always changing - I'm a Pisces! Sometimes I like one particular style for a season, and the next season I will dress totally different.

Ming Xi

#7. Does not-your boyfriend realize I'm Mormon?"
I nod. "It turns out, Holder doesn't have an issue with Mormons at all. He just has an issue with assholes.

Colleen Hoover

#8. The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

Jim Perrin

#9. You and Dad are really the wrecking ball of all of our teenage runaway fantasies. Why couldn't you jerks go and be crack addicts or religious fanatics so we could have excuses to live on the wide open road? - email from Lily

Candace Allan

#10. My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

Sallyann Murphey

#11. Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?

Edward Whittemore

#12. The members of the circle ... [were] performing a peculiar caper based on Mrs. Shawcross's fancy of what a Saxon dance might have seemed like. ("Did Saxons dance?" Pamela asked. "You never think of them dancing.")

Kate Atkinson

#13. You have have to know your worth in order to know you're worth investing into. Take a chance on your dreams and future.

Stephen D. Matthews

#14. Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

Gary Gygax

#15. People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.

Stefan Heym

#16. They don't want people to listen, they want people to agree," I reply. "And you shouldn't bully people into agreeing with you.

Veronica Roth

#17. God is love,' they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Heartbreak is like shattered glass: while it's impossible that two pieces could splinter in precisely the same pattern, in he end, it doesn't matter, because the effect is identical.

Daniel Alarcon