Bucket Bath

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

If a nation loses its storyteller, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert H. Heinlein

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips. - Joan Rivers

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

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child. - Joan Almon

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. - Marie Curie

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. - Carol Coats

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

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

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. - Unknown

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

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

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings. - Ozwald Boateng

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones

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

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Mid-life crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age. - William D Tammeus

All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one. - Archie Bunker

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

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

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

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

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

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. - Robert Orben

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

It takes someone really brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child, and someone special to love someone more than herself. - Unknown

I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?" - Steven Wright

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. - Gail Tsukiyama

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children.' - Susan Savannah