Parenting Skills

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

Take it from me, parents just don't understand. - Will Smith

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. - Tammy Faye Bakker

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. - Michael J. Fox

Kids are life's only guaranteed bona fide upside surprise. - Jack Nicholson

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. - Rodney Dangerfield

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. - Rodney Dangerfield

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

Insomnia: a contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. - Shannon Fife

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

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. - Fred Astaire

You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates. - Joe Sakic

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one. - Diane Lane

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Cicero

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

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway. - Ryan Sheckler

A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing. - Warren Buffet

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. - Robert Brault

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

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

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue. - Peter Gallagher

All kids are trouble, Edith. And I don't wanna spend my reclining years trying to raise another one. - Archie Bunker

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen? - Mark Hyman

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

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

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

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

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. - Phyllis Diller

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken