Kitchen Time Out

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

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

Brat: A child who displays his pest manners. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

What's done to children, they will do to society. - Karl A Menninger

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

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. - Michael J. Fox

What a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach. - Virginia Woolf

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

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

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

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

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

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Chid: A young person who does not wish to be referred to as a child or a kid - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

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

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

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

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. - Fran Lebowitz

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

I married your mother because I wanted children.
Imagine my disappointment when you came along. - Groucho Marx

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

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

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

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

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it. - Dorothy Height

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil. - Victor Hugo

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