"Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean……" — Delia Ephron
"Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies."
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9 Quotes by Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron has 9 quotes on this site.
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In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
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New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them:…
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On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit…
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I have one rule I live by: Only do what you can do. That neans you're never looking outside for…
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As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid…
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In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and…
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It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
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Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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