New Generation Priorities

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run. - Joan B. Samuelson

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F Kennedy

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short. - John Leguizamo

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Sam Levenson

You see much more of your children once they leave home. - Lucille Ball

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

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

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

When I was a child, nobody died; but now it happens all the time. - Unknown

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

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

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else. - Ann Landers

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

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

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

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

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - Unknown

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help." - Peter Buffett

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

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

I look back on my childhood and thank the stars above. For everything you gave me, but mostly for your love. - Wayne F Winters

The child should gain no request by anger; when he is quiet let him be offered what was refused when he wept. - Seneca

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

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

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

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them. - Joyce Maynard

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. - Erma Bombeck

Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe

He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. - Tom Wolfe

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

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

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now. - Mario Batali

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