Quotes

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

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
-Barbara Kingsolver

A boy is a noise with dirt on it.
-Anonymous Author

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

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

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.

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

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

I am fond of children - except boys.
-Lewis Carroll

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

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
-Anonymous Author

Children make you want to start life over.
-Muhammad Ali

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
-Margaret Atwood

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

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
-Kahlil GibranThe Prophet.

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

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
-Malcolm de Chazal

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
-John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

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

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

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

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
-Angela Schwindt

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
-Phyllis Diller

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
-Herbert Gold

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
-Mona Crane

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
-Robert Brault