Kitchen Time Out

A child's first teacher is its mother. - Peng Liyuan

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

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

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

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. - Joe Houldsworth

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

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

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. - Red Buttons

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - Ruth E. Renkel

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. - H Jackson Brown, Jr.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

Oh my God! Space aliens! Don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them! - Homer Simpson

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives. - Mark Batterson

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. - Unknown

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

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

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. - Jimmy Fallon

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

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

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

Daddies don't just love their children every now and then, it's a love without end. - George Strait

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

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

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

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

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers. - Erin O'Connor

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. - F Scott Fitzgerald

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. - Nora Ephron

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

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

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

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. - Mary Pickford

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

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