Unattended Children

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

What is a home without children? Quiet. - Henny Youngman

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

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

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

You see much more of your children once they leave home. - Lucille Ball

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. - Louise J. Kaplan

The two things children wear out are clothes and parents. - Unknown

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

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

Jackpot: When all the kids stay at friends' homes for the night - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Top Bunk: Where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - English Proverb

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

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

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. - Victor Hugo

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

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

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

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

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

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. - Bill Cosby

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help." - Peter Buffett

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

The child should gain no request by anger; when he is quiet let him be offered what was refused when he wept. - Seneca

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. - Darell Hammond

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

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

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

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. - George Foreman

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

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

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

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. - Joseph Mitchell

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil. - Victor Hugo