Barbara Holland Quote

Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.


Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences (1995)


Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back...

Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back...

Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back...

Parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back...