Alternative To Spanking

I like children - fried. - WC Fields

Old men are children for a second time. - Aristophanes

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

Children make you want to start life over. - Muhammad Ali

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevski

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

Raising kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park. - Unknown

Kids don't remember their best day of television. - Unknown

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

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

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent. - A.S. Neill

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. - Andy Williams

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. - Red Buttons

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

Vasectomy: 1. Never having to say you're sorry; 2. Spoil the rod. Spare the child. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps. - Jimmy Kimmel

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. - Michel de Montaigne

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy

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

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment in the answers they seek. - Unknown

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

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

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. - Orison Swett Marden

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O'Rourke

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

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

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

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

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

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

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