"They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?"

-- Richard Ford

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 4, 2016
“You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected”

Source : Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”
“I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.”
“We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.”
“You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.”
“The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.”
“We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.”
“We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.”

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