Look At It This Way

Childhood is a wilderness. - Aspen Matis

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

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. - Gilbert Parker

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

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

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

You should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. - Wilma Askinas

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

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - Neil Postman

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

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

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else. - Ann Landers

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. - Maya Angelou

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

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. - Golda Meir

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

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

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger. - Howie Mandel

People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant. - Ellen DeGeneres

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. - Sylvia Plath

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

The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. - Marcus Aurelius

Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - Unknown

Mid-life crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age. - William D Tammeus

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

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

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

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

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

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

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall