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In the labs, the young make things move, and the older ones follow like parents evolving with their children.
John Locke
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
Oscar Wilde
Children love their parents. Eventually they come to judge them. Rarely do they forgive them.




Leon R. Yankwich
There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
Arthur C. Clarke
Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
Kate Bush | Parenting Quotes
The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for.
Steven M. Greer
My parents believed that if you couldn't put it in a test tube, it didn't exist.
Warren Farrell
Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
Anais Nin
I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Jane Espenson
Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh.
Bill Cosby | Parenting Quotes
Parents are not interested in justice — they want QUIET!




Leonhard Euler
He calculated without any apparent effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.
Orson Scott Card
We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
Linus Torvalds
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
Daniel Defoe
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Ogden Nash | Parenting Quotes
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.
Fatimah
And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
Larry Wall
'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
Stephen Leacock
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.


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