Down Day

Baby lying in the bassinoot. - Archie Bunker

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother. - Mark Twain

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

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

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

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

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark

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

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent. - A.S. Neill

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

As a child, the only clear thought I had was "Get candy." - Jerry Seinfeld

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

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you. - Pixie Foudre

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

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

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

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. - Dakota Fanning

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help." - Peter Buffett

I was such an ugly baby. My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend. - Rodney Dangerfield

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

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

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. - Plato

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson

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

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

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

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

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

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

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

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

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going. - Alison Gopnik