Child Memories

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. - Danish Proverb

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

The presidency is temporary, but the family is permanent. - Yvonne de Gaulle

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. - Selena Gomez

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins

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

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M Barrie

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. - Anthony Brandt

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. - American Proverb

To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world. - Unknown

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

Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious. - Unknown

Joy Of Motherhood: What a woman experiences when all the kids are in bed - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids. - Unknown

Success is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. - Phoebe L. Moll

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep

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

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there. - Aden Young

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children. - Bill Hicks

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual. - Stephen Covey

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. - Jane Howard

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams, and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family. - Reed Markham

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama

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

I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? - Homer Simpson

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey