Soft Landing - Kowabunga, Dude!

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not. - Jill St John

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

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

Fourty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

Children should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again. - WC Fields

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

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

Sweater: A garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

I defended the republic in my youth; I will not desert it in old age. - Cicero

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. - Marian W. Edelman

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. - Nicholas Sparks

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Adams

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

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

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice; if he leaves it empty, he gets actors. - Bill Vaughan

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China! - Jarod Kintz

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. - Phyllis Diller

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. - Alex Haley

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. - Agatha Trunchbull

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark ... to have been loved so deeply ... will give us some protection forever. - J K Rowling

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives. - Floyd Dell