New Generation Priorities

I like children - fried. - WC Fields

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

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

The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

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

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

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

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good. - Donald Trump

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

My children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them. - Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. - Nancy Astor

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

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

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

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

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

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

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

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn ... betrays its ancestor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Unknown

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. - Athol Fugard

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

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

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. - John C Maxwell

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

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. - Agatha Trunchbull

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. - Friedrich Frobel

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

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

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. - Andy Rooney

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller