Can I Lick The Bowl

Children make your life important. - Erma Bombeck

Every child begins the world again. - Henry David Thoreau

What is a home without children? Quiet. - Henny Youngman

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

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap. - Danish Proverb

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

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

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

What a morning - fresh as if issued to children on a beach. - Virginia Woolf

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

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

I don't teach my children what is Hindu and what is Muslim. - Shah Rukh Khan

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

Bricks may make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. - Dick Cavett

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. - Ruth E. Renkel

The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. - Phyllis Diller

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. - Rainer M. Rilke

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. - Robert Benchley

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

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. - Art Linkletter

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. - Ashley Jensen

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

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

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

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

I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film. - William Shatner

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. - Bill Vaughan

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. - Sargent Shriver

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - Sir James M. Barrie

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

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

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

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home. - Dennis Miller