Child's Decision Making Tree

Cherish youth, but trust old age. - Pueblo Proverb

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

I made the decision. I'm accountable. - Janet Reno

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

I love children if they're cooked properly. - WC Fields

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. - Benjamin Disraeli

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. - Michael J. Fox

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

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

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

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. - Georges Courteline

My children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - John Wooden

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

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

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart

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

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

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings. - Ozwald Boateng

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

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

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision. - Steve Backley

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan P. Smith

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

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

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

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken and there's a lot of throwing up. - Ray Romano

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 you need to make a difficult decision and you let someone else decide for you, you will regret it, no matter how it turns out. - Unknown

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. - André Gide

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. - Evan Esar

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

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. - Gail Tsukiyama