Famous quotes containing the words odd and/or parity:
“Borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
“The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.”
—David Blankenhorn (20th century)