Big Hands Baby

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

The man who has a full set of tools has no children. - Unknown

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. - Pearl S. Buck

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. - Doris Day

As a child, the only clear thought I had was "Get candy." - Jerry Seinfeld

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. - Lorraine Hansbury

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

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

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

I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids. - Unknown

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. - David Brenner

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. - Brendan Behan

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. - Thornton Wilder

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

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

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

Children are not a distraction for more important work. They are the most important work. - C S Lewis

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. - Franklin P. Jones

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. - William Shatner

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

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. - Marian W Edelman

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair. - Jarod Kintz

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

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller