Raise Twins

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

The worst children are always somebody else's. - Unknown

Kids don't remember their best day of television. - Unknown

The best thing to spend on your children is your time. - Louise Hart

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

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

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

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

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. - Nancy Astor

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. - Ignacio Estrada

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment. - Doug Larson

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps. - Jimmy Kimmel

A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing. - Warren Buffett

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

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

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacquelyn Kennedy

When I was born the Doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" - Rodney Dangerfield

It's triple the Trump this season... I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom. - Donald Trump

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. - Marian W Edelman

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

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

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken and there's a lot of throwing up. - Ray Romano

He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. - Tom Wolfe

Grandparent: 1. One who knows that spanking is unnecessary; 2. The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. - Mark Batterson

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

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G K Chesterton

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey