Fedorable Platypuses

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm

You take more pictures of your baby than NASA does of Mars. - Unknown

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck

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

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. - Richard J. Ferris

My Birth Certificate is so old, it's written in Roman Numerals. - Bill Carter

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point. - Jack Falahee

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

Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife

Back then the women had babies, which they called in them days, begatten. - Archie Bunker

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby. - Mary Marsh

The firsts go away - first love, first baby, first kiss. You have to create new ones. - Sarah Jessica Parker

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help." - Peter Buffett

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

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

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie

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

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. - Robert Orben

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. - Mary Pickford

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. - Friedrich Frobel

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung