Some People Raise Children

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear. - Alan Davies

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

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

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. - Martha Jones

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. - Unknown

The worst children are always somebody else's. - Unknown

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

The best thing to spend on your children is your time. - Louise Hart

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

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. - Charles Dickens

Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon. - Mango Wodzak

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. - Jim Henson

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - Ruth E. Renkel

My children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck

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

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. - Tina Brown

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

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

The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children. - Unknown

Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

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

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. - Jomo Mzee Kenyatta

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

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." - Lillian Carter

Life's golden age is when the children are too old to need babysitters and too young to borrow the family car. - Unknown

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - WC Fields

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

If you never want to see a man again, just tell him, "I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have children." They leave skid marks. - Rita Rudner

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. - Gail Tsukiyama

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