Little Johnny Bath

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

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

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

Time is a game played beautifully by children. - Heraclitus

A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb

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

What's done to children, they will do to society. - Karl A Menninger

When the devil finds a lazy woman, he puts her to work. - Russian Proverb

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

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

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold Hulbert

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

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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything. - Coco Chanel

When I was a child, nobody died; but now it happens all the time. - Unknown

My grandmother took a bath every year, whether she was dirty or not. - Brendan Behan

My children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television. - Erma Bombeck

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

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them. - Rita Rudner

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill

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

Grandchildren are God's rewards to grandparents for not shooting their children. - Unknown

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

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry. - Noam Chomsky

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

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

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. - Eoin Colfer

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe. - Marian Wright Edelman

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. - Bertrand Russell

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. - Fay Weldon

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil. - Donal Harding

It takes someone really brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child, and someone special to love someone more than herself. - Unknown

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

I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book and a bubble bath, I'm a happy girl. - Shiloh Walker

Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life. - Conan O'Brien