New Generation Priorities

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love shark week, all kids swim for free. - Josh Stern

You can't write poetry on the computer. - Quentin Tarantino

It's never too late for a happy childhood. - Gloria Steinem

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. - Ed Asner

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

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

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. - Danish Proverb

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. - Paul Ehrlich

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Raising kids make most people, including me, grow up at least a little. - Madonna

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them. - Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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

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

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

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

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. - Erma Bombeck

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. - Milton Berle

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

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

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

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

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama

Don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

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

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. - G Stanley Hall

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

Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjold

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

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller