Babysitting Kids

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

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

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

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

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Sam Levenson

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. - Louise J. Kaplan

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. - Joe Houldsworth

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

When I was a child, nobody died; but now it happens all the time. - Unknown

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

Yachting: standing in a cold shower tearing up hundred-dollar bills. - Unknown

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar. - John D. Rockefeller

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben

Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious. - Unknown

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. - African Proverb

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

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

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

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. - Lane Olinghouse

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

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

Here lies my past.
Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids.
I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

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

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. - Jim Bishop

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them. - Joyce Maynard

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' - Christopher Meloni

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in eight hours of TV a day. - Homer Simpson

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. - Lillian Carter

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil. - Victor Hugo

Some primal termite knocked on wood,
And tasted it, and found it good;
That is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today. - Ogden Nash