"Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child."

-- Laura Lippman

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.”
“In case of dispute, the umpire shall throw it straight into the field.”

Source : James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.54, U of Nebraska Press
“I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.
“I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.”
“I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.”
“I actually am fairly uncomfortable about it, even if our firm stipulation was that they cannot tell us what to do. We are simply doing what we do anyways - securing software - and they have no say in the matter. I try to convince myself that our grant means a half of a cruise missile doesn't get built.”

Source : "U.S. Military Helps Fund Calgary Hacker". Interview with David Akin, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 06, 2003.
“I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.”
“Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.”

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