Look At It This Way

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

I am fond of children - except boys. - Lewis Carroll

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

If you've got a talent, protect it. - Jim Carrey

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

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

I was with book, as a woman is with child. - C S Lewis

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

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. - Unknown

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

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. - Bruce Barton

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

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

I'm contributing to the, waddya call, on the loosincy of a child. - Archie Bunker

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. - Unknown

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us. - Golda Meir

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. - Marilyn Monroe

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. - Stephen King

The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use the one talent. - Edgar Work

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

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

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. - Robert Orben

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

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

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. - Mary Pickford

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. - Hugo L Black

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. - Antoine de Saint-Expurey

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G K Chesterton

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. - Nico Mirallegro