Twins' First Piano Lesson

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

The Child is father of the Man. - William Wordsworth

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother. - Mark Twain

You take more pictures of your baby than NASA does of Mars. - Unknown

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film. - Jack Nicholson

My Birth Certificate is so old, it's written in Roman Numerals. - Bill Carter

I'm contributing to the, waddya call, on the loosincy of a child. - Archie Bunker

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

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

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. - Dave Barry

Baby: a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. - Ronald Knox

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

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

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley

The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby. - Mary Marsh

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

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

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

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well. - Martin Luther

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

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in eight hours of TV a day. - Homer Simpson

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. - Robert Orben

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. - Sophia Loren