LOVE · VERIFIED · EN

Peter De Vries Quote

“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

— Peter De Vries

Source: Quotables — alvations/Quotables (CC0 1.0 dataset)

Attribution status: verified · Publication status: cleared

Explore more quotes attributed to Peter De Vries or browse love quotes.

If you believe this quote is incorrectly attributed or should be removed, see Copyright and quote corrections.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

— Peter De Vries

Wisdom

Read quote

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

— Peter De Vries

Wisdom

Read quote

The essential elements of giving are power and love—activity and affection—and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

— Mark Hopkins

Love

Read quote

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall,— Some days must be dark and dreary.

— Longfellow

Love

Read quote

It is the best thing for a stricken heart to be helping others.

— A. K. H

Love

Read quote

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upward when they are most burdened.

— Sir Philip Sidney

Love

Read quote