Look At It This Way

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Adults are just obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

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

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

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. - Allen Klein

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. - Philip Yancey

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. - American Proverb

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else. - Ann Landers

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. - Art Linkletter

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. - Louis Hector Berlioz

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Vasectomy: 1. Never having to say you're sorry; 2. Spoil the rod. Spare the child. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. - Ignacio Estrada

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter DeVries

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. - Lane Olinghouse

During World War II children were not allowed to trick or treat because there was a sugar shortage. - Linda Bozzo

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

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

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. - Ken Dodd

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O'Rourke

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

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

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

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason; to always be curious; and to fight tirelessly for something. - Paulo Coelho

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

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. - Lillian Carter

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. - Robertson Davies

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert