Children make your life important.
Interpretation
Children give purpose and significance to life.
This quote emphasizes the profound impact that children have on the lives of their parents and guardians. It suggests that through nurturing and raising children, individuals find a deeper sense of meaning, responsibility, and fulfillment, as children not only rely on adults for care but also inspire them to grow and contribute positively to the world.
In practice
In a speech about parenting, one might say, 'As Erma Bombeck said, children make your life important, reminding us of our roles and responsibilities.'
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.
I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.
It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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