Some People Raise Children

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. - Martha Jones

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

You want people to think you live in a pig's eye? - Archie Bunker

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

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

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. - Leo J Burke

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. - Neil Postman

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything. - Frank Sinatra

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Robert A. Heinlein

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Henry Ward Beecher

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. - Pope John XXIII

Grandchildren are God's rewards to grandparents for not shooting their children. - Unknown

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment. - Doug Larson

Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. - Cale Yarborough

If you're going to write a book on how to raise children, do it before you have them. - Bob McLaren

Children are not a distraction for more important work. They are the most important work. - C S Lewis

No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses - one vaccine at a time, over time. - Donald Trump

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle

During World War II children were not allowed to trick or treat because there was a sugar shortage. - Linda Bozzo

It's triple the Trump this season... I invited my children, Don Jr. and Ivanka into the boardroom. - Donald Trump

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

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore,
And that’s what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children? - Rod Blagojevich

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

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

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell

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

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it. - Dorothy Height

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

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert