A Real Cowboy Has No Fear

I am fond of children - except boys. - Lewis Carroll

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

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

The man who has a full set of tools has no children. - Unknown

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short. - John Leguizamo

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

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in. - Cathy Warner Weatherford

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

I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx

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

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

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. - Robert Brault

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

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
when they think that their children are naive. - Ogden Nash

People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant. - Ellen DeGeneres

There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children - one is roots, and the other, wings. - Hodding S. Carter

Fathers are like a lighthouse - when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - 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

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. - Athol Fugard

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. - Plato

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

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

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car. - Erma Bombeck

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

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

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

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

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kids' therapy. - Michelle Pfeiffer