Kitchen Time Out

Every child begins the world again. - Henry David Thoreau

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

What is a home without children? Quiet. - Henny Youngman

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

I love children if they're cooked properly. - WC Fields

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins

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

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young. - Donald Trump

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

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

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

All kids are gifted: some just open their packages earlier than others. - Michael Carr

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

Grandchildren are God's rewards to grandparents for not shooting their children. - Unknown

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

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

One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Ray Chenoweth

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. - Sylvia Plath

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

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

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

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. - Criss Jami

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