Unattended Children

Age considers; youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

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

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. - Danish Proverb

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

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. - Unknown

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim. - Shah Rukh Khan

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

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. - Anita Brookner

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred Whitehead

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good. - Donald Trump

All kids are gifted: some just open their packages earlier than others. - Michael Carr

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. - Marian W. Edelman

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. - Tina Brown

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. - Sylvia Plath

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

I married your mother because I wanted children.
Imagine my disappointment when you came along. - Groucho Marx

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. - Athol Fugard

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan P. Smith

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. - Sargent Shriver

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' - Christopher Meloni

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children. - Bill Hicks

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. - Lillian Carter

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

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

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer