Unattended Children

Adults are just obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. - William Shakespeare

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. - John Milton

Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. - WC Fields

Fourty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. - Joe Houldsworth

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader. - Jackson Radcliffe

Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious. - Unknown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

The most important question in the world is, "Why is the child crying?" - Alice Walker

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. - Bill Cosby

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

During World War II children were not allowed to trick or treat because there was a sugar shortage. - Linda Bozzo

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." - Lillian Carter

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. - Evan Esar

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert