Can I Lick The Bowl

It takes a whole village to raise a child. - African Proverb

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

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

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. - Aristotle

The best thing to spend on your children is your time. - Louise Hart

If a nation loses its storyteller, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

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

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

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in. - Cathy Warner Weatherford

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. - Al Bernstein

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. - Anita Brookner

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

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

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. - Bob Talbert

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

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

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. - Unknown

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

I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids. - Unknown

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown

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

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding S. Carter

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

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

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point. - Mark Zuckerberg

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. - Erma Bombeck

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. - William Shatner

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

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

Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama

He adopted a role called being a father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a protector. - Tom Wolfe

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. - George Foreman

Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. - Johnny Depp