If help and salvation are to
come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers
of men.
Author: Maria Montessori
I have found the best way to
give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise
them to do it.
Author: Harry S Truman
I must study politics
and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy,
geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their
children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary,
tapestry, and porcelain.
Author: John Adams
I talk and talk and talk,
and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example
in one week.
Author: Mario Cuomo
I think we’re seeing
in working mothers a change from “Thank God it’s Friday”
to “Thank God it’s Monday.” If any working mother has not
experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.
Author: Ann Diehl
I threw my cup away when
I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Author: Diogenes
I was cesarean born. You
can't really tell, although whenever I leave a house, I go out through a
window.
Author: Steven Wright
If a child is to keep
his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult
who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery
of the world we live in.
Author: Rachel Carson
If a woman has to choose
between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose
to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Author: Dave Barry
If evolution really works, how
come mothers only have two hands?
Author: Milton Berle
Never fear spoiling children
by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections
grow.
Author: Thomas Bray
Never have children, only
grandchildren.
Author: Gore Vidal
Never lend your car to
anyone to whom you have given birth.
Author: Erma Bombeck
No animal is so inexhaustible
as an excited infant.
Author: Amy Leslie
Of all the animals, the
boy is the most unmanageable.
Author: Plato
One of my children wrote
in a third-grade piece on how her mother spent her time. "one-half
time on home, one-half time on outside things, one-half time writing."
Author: Charlotte Montgomery
Parents are the bones
on which children cut their teeth.
Author: Peter Ustinov
Parents: persons who spend
half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the
time wondering when a child will turn in.
Author: Ted Cook
People often ask me, "What's
the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture.
Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers,
your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula,
your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources--all
creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly
dry.
Author: Paul Reiser
People who say they sleep
like babies usually don't have them.
Author: Leo J. Burke
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