Linux Kids

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.
                -- Iphicrates

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
                -- Groucho Marx

My mother once said to me, "Elwood," (she always called me Elwood)
"Elwood, in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
For years I tried smart.  I recommend pleasant.
                -- Elwood P. Dowde, "Harvey"

My mother wants grandchildren, so I said, "Mom, go for it!"
                -- Sue Murphy

My mother was a test tube; my father was a knife.
                -- Friday

My parents went to Niagara Falls and all I got was this crummy life.

My ritual differs slightly.  What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I
hop into the shower stall.  Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped
in I landed barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot
character from "Star Wars" whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off
of while he showers.  Then I hop right back into the stall because our dog,
Earnest, who has been alone in the basement all night building up powerful
dog emotions, has come bounding and quivering into the bathroom and wants
to greet me with 60 or 70 thousand playful nips, any one of which -- bear
in mind that I am naked and, without my contact lenses, essentially blind
-- could result in the kind of injury where you have to learn a whole new
part if you want to sing the "Messiah," if you get my drift.  Then I hop
right back out, because Robert, with that uncanny sixth sense some children
have -- you cannot teach it; they either have it or they don't -- has chosen
exactly that moment to flush one of the toilets.  Perhaps several of them.
                -- Dave Barry

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be
tolerated until they acquire some sense.
                -- William Phelps

Never have children, only grandchildren.
                -- Gore Vidal

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
                -- Erma Bombeck