A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
- Bill Vaughn
What is a home without children? Quiet.
- Henny Youngman
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
- Winston Churchill
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
- Joan Kerr
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
- Ben Bergor
Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
- Kahlil GibranThe Prophet.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
- Angela Schwindt
A boy is a noise with dirt on it.
- Unknown
I am fond of children - except boys.
- Lewis Carroll
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
- Unknown
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Ambrose Bierce
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
- Ellen Glasgow
Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
- Malcolm de Chazal
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
- Herbert Gold
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Mark Twain
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
- Unknown
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
- John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
- Mona Crane
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
- Dogen Zenji Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher.
Children make you want to start life over.
- Muhammad Ali
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
- Robert Brault
And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at....
- Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- Margaret Atwood
