Look At It This Way

What a beautiful view! - Alan Shepard

I am fond of children - except boys. - Lewis Carroll

Children are poor people's riches. - Unknown

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

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

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

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

We do not inherit the earth from our parents. We borrow it from our children. - Unknown

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

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. - Bill Cosby

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

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore,
And that’s what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. - Mona Crane

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

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

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert