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following were answers provided by 6th graders during history tests. Some of the best humour is in the misspelling
] Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin The great man is one who never loses his child’s heart. - Mencius An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero Jackpot: When all the kids stay at friends' homes for the night - Daffynitions joe-ks.com If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - English Proverb Apple: Nutritious lunchtime dessert which children will trade for cupcakes. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. - Thomas Paine As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison 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 Golden Age: When the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. - Stephen King The child should gain no request by anger; when he is quiet let him be offered what was refused when he wept. - Seneca There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. - Mona Crane Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? - Rod Blagojevich 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 Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. - C S Lewis The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. - Bill Vaughan Car Pool: Complicated system of transportation where Mom always winds up going the furthest with the biggest bunch of kids who have had the most sugar - Daffynitions joe-ks.com see also Aging, History & Trivia Sections Attention Span Babysitting Kids Eat Your Vegetables Falling Picture Help For Dead Children OCD Ball Pit Redneck Time Out Unattended Children |
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