"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
~Leo J. Burke
"It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money."
~Elinor Goulding Smith
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
~Stacia Tauscher
"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring."
"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring."
~Liz Armbruster, on robertbrault.com
"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
~Harold Hulbert
"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."
"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."
~Fran Lebowitz
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six. "
~John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese
"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to."
"A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
"If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory."
"If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory."
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
"There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age."
"There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age."
~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." ~Phyllis Diller
"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." ~Phyllis Diller
"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
~Robert Gallagher
