Marcelene Cox Quotes

"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Garden, Listening, Nothing, Thinking, Weather)

"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Woman)

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Children, Glory, Parenthood, Parents, Trees)

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Children, Christmas, Politicians)

"Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Life, End, First, Will)

"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Character)

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Being, Housekeeping)

"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Conversation, Eating)

"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Family, Children, Direction, Flowers)

"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Family, Mother, Rest, Vacation)

"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Children)

"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Friendship, Woman)

"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Blame, First, Parents, Succeed)