Down Day

Every child begins the world again. - Henry David Thoreau

Ballroom: A nursery for crying babies - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

It takes an entire village to raise a child. - African Proverb

For when a child is born the mother also is born again. - Gilbert Parker

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips. - Joan Rivers

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

I'm contributing to the, waddya call, on the loosincy of a child. - Archie Bunker

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

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

Baby: a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Knox

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. - Natalie Wood

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

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? - Benny Hill

The most important question in the world is, "Why is the child crying?" - Alice Walker

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

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. - Ignacio Estrada

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. - Dave Barry

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

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

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. - Bradley Miller

I was such an ugly baby. My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend. - Rodney Dangerfield

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. - Jim Gaffigan

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. - Enid Bagnold

The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
'Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light.' - Shel Silverstein

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

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

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' - Christopher Meloni

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

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