Bent Baby

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

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. - Judy Collins

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

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

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. - Helen Keller

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard

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

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

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

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

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

I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove. - Groucho Marx

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke

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

Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved. - Mark Twain

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

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields

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

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children. - Bill Hicks

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 think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato

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