Unattended Children

Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

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

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. - Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. - Danish Proverb

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything. - Coco Chanel

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

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. - Lorraine Hansbury

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child. - Joan Almon

Grandchildren are God's rewards to grandparents for not shooting their children. - Unknown

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller

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

It's not that age brings childhood back again. Age merely shows what children we remain. - Goethe

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. - Fran Lebowitz

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love. - Monique Roffey

All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one. - Archie Bunker

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. - Suze Orman

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

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

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

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

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

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

You know your kids are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P.J. O'Rourke

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. - Lillian Carter

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

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. - Johnny Depp

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. - Evan Esar