Little Johnny Bath

Children make your life important. - Erma Bombeck

The worst children are always somebody else's. - Unknown

Kids don't remember their best day of television. - Unknown

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

Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. - Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. - Unknown

Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious. - Unknown

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

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

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Adams

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you. - Mae West

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play. - Michel de Montaigne

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

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

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

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Unknown

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. - Richard Whately

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

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. - Kevin Leman

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

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. - Teresa of Ávila

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. - Friedrich Frobel

The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. - Evan Esar

Life is a child playing around your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. - Jean Anouilh

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. I do it with adults now. - Mario Batali

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis Diller