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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
PHYLLIS DILLER, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
WALT DISNEY, Deeds Rather Than Words
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
PAUL REISER, Good Housekeeping, 1997
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
- There was a little girl,
- Who had a little curl,
- Right in the middle of her forehead.
- When she was good,
- She was very good indeed,
- But when she was bad she was horrid.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "There Was a Little Girl"
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
PHYLLIS DILLER, Woman's Day, Aug. 2011
What is the son but an extension of the father?
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN, On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
PHYLLIS DILLER, attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, Oprah Winfrey interview, Jun. 1, 2008
I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.
WALT DISNEY, Deeds Rather Than Words
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
Children should be judged on what they are -- a punishment for an early marriage.
ERMA BOMBECK, I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression
A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected — never possessed, since he belongs to God.
J. D. SALINGER, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, letter to Madame Louise Colet, Dec. 11, 1852
The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.
MAXIM GORKY, "Creatures that Once were Men"
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