Down Day

Baby lying in the bassinoot. - Archie Bunker

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

Babies are such a nice way to start people. - Don Herold

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother. - Mark Twain

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

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

The great man is one who never loses his child’s heart. - Mencius

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

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. - American Proverb

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

Four very powerful words to say to your child: "I believe in you." - Kevin Heath

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

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

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. - African Proverb

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson

It's one of the great urban myths that people get pregnant in order to have children. - Menzies Campbell

Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed in man. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. - Dakota Fanning

I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning. - Phyllis Diller

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

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

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

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

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

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto

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

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. - Bertrand Russell

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil. - Victor Hugo