Ogden Nash Quotes

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

We are the buffoons of our children.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.

Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.

The day your child says she hates you, and every child will go through the phase, it kicks like a foot in the stomach.

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.