Alternative To Spanking

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Children make you want to start life over. - Muhammad Ali

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run. - Joan B. Samuelson

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

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

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault

When I was a child, nobody died; but now it happens all the time. - Unknown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. - Unknown

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - English Proverb

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

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. - Golda Meir

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

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

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

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

No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses - one vaccine at a time, over time. - Donald Trump

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

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

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

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. - Jim Gaffigan

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

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

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in eight hours of TV a day. - Homer Simpson

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. - Will Rogers

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

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

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. - Mary Pickford

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan

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