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.
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.
I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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