Quotes About Raising Teenage Sons

#1. Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

Ana Monnar

#2. Science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare

#4. Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.

Jay Leno

#5. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Lynne Truss

#6. Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

John Dryden

#7. You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.

Dave Eggers

#8. since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation.

Marcel Proust

#9. I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.

Jay Roach

#10. Strip him of equipage and fortune, and such things as only dazzle our eyes and imaginations, but don't in any measure affect our reason or cause a reverence in our hearts, and the poor creature sinks beneath our notice, because not supported by real worth.

Mary Astell

#11. I can touch you with a thought.

Kyra Davis

#12. Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

P.D. James

#13. Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, Tsukuru had fallen into the bowels of death, one untold day after another, lost in a dark, stagnant void.

Haruki Murakami

#14. I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

Christian Louboutin

#15. Unleash your creative energy and let it flow. Relish the possibilities.

Nita Leland