Fedorable Platypuses

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

Every child begins the world again. - Henry David Thoreau

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

It takes a whole village to raise a child. - African Proverb

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

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

You take more pictures of your baby than NASA does of Mars. - Unknown

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. - Charles Dickens

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

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

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. - Leo J Burke

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife

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

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

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

At the base and birth of every successful venture you will find an enthusiast. - Winston Churchill

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

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley

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

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

When I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child. - Dr. Seuss

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

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

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

I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning. - Phyllis Diller

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved. - Mark Twain

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo

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

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in eight hours of TV a day. - Homer Simpson

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason; to always be curious; and to fight tirelessly for something. - Paulo Coelho

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

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

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia