In a Nutshell - 15: Pearls of Parenting Wisdom and Humor

• This, too, shall pass. I’ve had kidney stones and I know! (Lee Hayes)
• Big names often stand on small legs. (Old Proverb)
• In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again. (James Agee)
• A good name keeps its luster in the dark. (Old English Proverb)
• No, Groucho is not my real name. I’m breaking it in for a friend. (Groucho Marx)
• Everybody has a name anybody has a name and everybody anybody does what he does with his name feels what he feels about his name, likes or dislikes what he has to have with having his name, in short it is his name unless he changes his name unless he does what he likes what he likes with his name. (Gertrude Stein)
• Native Americans regard their names not as mere labels, but as parts of their personalities. A native person’s name is as vital to his or her identity as the eyes or teeth. (Wilma Mankiller, 1st Woman Chief, Cherokee Nation)
• There is everything in a name. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would cost half as much during the winter months. (George Ade)
• A man lives a generation; a name to the end of all generations. (Japanese Proverb)
• Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. (Mark Twain)
• There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it. (C. S. Lewis)