"Parenting meant that whether or not your children……" — Nora Ephron
"Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them."
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116 Quotes by Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron has 116 quotes on this site.
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What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually…
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In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.
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Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
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Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.
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There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot…
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The empty nest is underrated.
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
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We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five…
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Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking…
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And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year…
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You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
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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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