Child Instrument

Children make your life important. - Erma Bombeck

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

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children. - Martha Jones

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

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

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. - John Ruskin

When I was a child what I wanted to be when I grew up was an invalid. - Quentin Crisp

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. - African Proverb

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. - Pope John XXIII

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

Children are a great comfort in your old age, and they help you reach it faster, too. - Lionel Kauffman

When I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child. - Dr. Seuss

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

It's one of the great urban myths that people get pregnant in order to have children. - Menzies Campbell

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. - Hodding S. Carter

People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant. - Ellen DeGeneres

What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. - Sylvia Plath

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. - H. Jackson Brown

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy

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

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. - Nobu Matsuhisa

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take ‘em. - Bernie Mac

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. - Benjamin Spock

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

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore,
And that’s what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

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

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. - Dr. SunWolf

In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

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

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil. - Victor Hugo

Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them. - Seymour Papert