Unattended Children

Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

Age considers; youth ventures. - Rabindranath Tagore

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. - Friedrich Schiller

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

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

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevski

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

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

The best way to make children is to make them happy. - Oscar Wilde

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

Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. - WC Fields

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

The great man is one who never loses his child’s heart. - Mencius

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

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

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

All kids are gifted: some just open their packages earlier than others. - Michael Carr

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

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

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

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

The most important question in the world is, "Why is the child crying?" - Alice Walker

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

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

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. - Sylvia Plath

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

I married your mother because I wanted children.
Imagine my disappointment when you came along. - Groucho Marx

All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one. - Archie Bunker

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby. - Jim Gaffigan

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. - Jane Goodall

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

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

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore,
And that’s what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Here lies my past.
Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids.
I wouldn’t have missed it. - Ogden Nash

Play is a vital learning medium for a child. In a sense play is his work. And he discovers knowledge for himself. - Raymond Moore

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey