Look At It This Way

The big talent is persistence. - Octavia E Butler

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

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

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. - Aaron Brown

A unicorn is just a horse with a point of view. - Ron Sexsmith

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. - Jim Henson

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

In a comic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. - Carl Sagan

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis. - Franklin P Jones

Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse. - Jimmy Fallon

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Kidney: 1. Midpoint of a child's leg; 2. An organ used to convert beer into urine. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. - Will Rogers

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead. - Ravi Zacharias

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

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him. - Jerry Falwell

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

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives. - Floyd Dell