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Douglas Coupland | Parenting Quotes
“I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op.”
Joey Comeau
I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.
Kate Bush
The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for.




Arthur C. Clarke
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
Dick Cavett
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Patri Friedman | Parenting Quotes
Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.
Daniel Defoe
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Claudette Colbert
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.
Peter Ustinov
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Woody Allen
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Oscar Wilde | Parenting Quotes
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.




John Locke
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
Linus Torvalds
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
Larry Wall
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
George Bernard Shaw
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
Joseph Stalin | Parenting Quotes
Apparently, father was a Georgian when he was younger.
Ogden Nash
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.
Nathaniel Emmons
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
Alan Perlis
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Billy Corgan
My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.


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