Babysitting Kids

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

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

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevski

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar. - Steven Wright

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Sam Levenson

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert H. Heinlein

You should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck

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

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. - Andy Williams

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. - Unknown

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. - English Proverb

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

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

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. - Unknown

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. - Tina Brown

The affection you get back from children is sixpence given as change for a sovereign. - Edith Nesbit

My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings. - Ozwald Boateng

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

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby

One of the most important things a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Ray Chenoweth

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. - Phyllis Diller

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship. - Sadie Jones

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

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

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

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

If your cousin Maude says one wrong word to me, we're gonna be leaving before the bride takes the shower. - Archie Bunker

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

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

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

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

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

Children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them, thus preserving the system. - Quentin Crewe

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason; to always be curious; and to fight tirelessly for something. - Paulo Coelho

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

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