Look At It This Way

Every child begins the world again. - Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. - Aaron Brown

The worst children are always somebody else's. - Unknown

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - John Le Carre

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

Talent is a loan from God for the relief of man's estate. - Jelal Ad-Din

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. - Marian W. Edelman

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

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

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. - Tina Brown

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

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

Children are not a distraction for more important work. They are the most important work. - C S Lewis

Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. - C S Lewis

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. - Joseph Addison

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. - Mary Pickford

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

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children.' - Susan Savannah