Child Instrument

Thank God kids never mean well. - Lily Tomlin

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

It takes an entire village to raise a child. - African Proverb

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. - Ed Asner

With kids, the days are long, but the years are short. - John Leguizamo

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

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

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

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

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults. - Abraham Lincoln

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

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

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

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

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

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

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

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. - Groucho Marx

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

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

No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses - one vaccine at a time, over time. - Donald Trump

When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. - Jean Piaget

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

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

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

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential. - Hillary Rodham Clinton

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O'Rourke

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

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. - Darell Hammond

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

There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender. - WC Fields

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. - Will Rogers

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. - Ben Bergor

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

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

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says, 'keep away from children.' - Susan Savannah