New Generation Priorities

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. - Jeff Pesis

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana

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

If a nation loses its storyteller, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

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

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

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips

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

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to. - Jamie Lee Curtis

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

The most important question in the world is, "Why is the child crying?" - Alice Walker

Keyboard Plaque: The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Keyboard: 1. Place to hang your keys; 2. The standard way to generate computer errors. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment. - Doug Larson

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

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. - Michel de Montaigne

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. - Agatha Christie

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

The best thing I've ever done? Well, I've created four beautiful children. You mean, other than that? - Donald Trump

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." - Lillian Carter

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. - Mark Twain

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

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. - Robert Orben

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

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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

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

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

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

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

If you never want to see a man again, just tell him, "I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have children." They leave skid marks. - Rita Rudner