Child Memories

Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin

Success is the child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Friends are the family you choose. - Jennifer Aniston

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes an entire village to raise a child. - African Proverb

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

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family. - Homer Simpson

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley

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

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

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head. - Martin Mull

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

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - English Proverb

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. - Unknown

Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King

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

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

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. - Nobu Matsuhisa

My family was so poor that if I hadn't been born a boy, I wouldn't of had anything to play with. - Rodney Dangerfield

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

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

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

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. - Plato

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

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

In every jigsaw puzzle, there is one key piece, and the only tough job is to identify that key piece from the mess out there. - Sapan Saxena

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

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level. - Mario Lemieux

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies." - Phyllis Diller

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