Unattended Children

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The man who has a full set of tools has no children. - Unknown

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

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

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

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. - Jim Henson

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

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. - Cher

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - John Wooden

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

It's not that age brings childhood back again. Age merely shows what children we remain. - Goethe

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. - Fran Lebowitz

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. - Nobu Matsuhisa

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

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

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. - Stephen King

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ‘em. - Bernie Mac

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones

No matter how long we've been together Edith, you still, as the kids say, "turn me over." - Archie Bunker

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

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

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. - Mona Crane

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

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

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

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

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

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. - Friedrich Frobel

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now. - Mario Batali

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