Child Instrument

Every child begins the world again. - Henry David Thoreau

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. - Martha Jones

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

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. - Ed Asner

Kids don't remember their best day of television. - Unknown

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson

The great man is one who never loses his child’s heart. - Mencius

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. - Danish Proverb

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

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

As a child, the only clear thought I had was "Get candy." - Jerry Seinfeld

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. - Lorraine Hansbury

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Oh my God! Space aliens! Don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them! - Homer Simpson

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. - Art Linkletter

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

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

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. - Robert Brault

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. - Fran Lebowitz

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor

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

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen? - Mark Hyman

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." - Lillian Carter

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

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. - Agatha Trunchbull

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

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

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