Peter De Vries - Children Quotes

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

Any suburban mother can state her role sardonically enough in a sentence: it is to deliver children obstetrically once and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

Peter De Vries