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Parenting Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Mignon McLaughlin | Parenting Quotes
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Larry Wall
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.
Alan Perlis
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.




Samuel Beckett
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
Jane Espenson
Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh.
"I think my parents were bewildered by my oddity." (p3)
D. H. Lawrence
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Bill Allred
Apparently they have The Clap at The Planetarium.
Warren Farrell
Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
Joey Comeau
I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.
Peter Ustinov | Parenting Quotes
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.




Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Steven M. Greer
My parents believed that if you couldn't put it in a test tube, it didn't exist.
Bill Cosby
Parents are not interested in justice — they want QUIET!
J. D. Salinger
Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
Elvis Presley | Parenting Quotes
Little hellions, kids feelin' rebellious,
Embarrassed their parents still listen to Elvis.
John Locke
That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.
Edward Lewis Wallant
All my parents gave me was their fumbly hands: I got their hands inside me to this day.
Jacques Delille
Le sort fait les parents, la choix fait les amis.
Linus Torvalds
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.


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