Robert Breault Quotes

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• A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.
• The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
• Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
• Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
• The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
• Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
• Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless…
• The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
• Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned…
• Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
• Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
• There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.
• The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.
• A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
• An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.
• Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?
• Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
• Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.
• For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.
• A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

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