Our genes make us immortal.  ~The Secret of Life, PBSTPV

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for.  ~Jerry Seinfeldrdqq

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child.  ~Joan Almon

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.  ~Franklin P. JonesFCN

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings.  ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.comtwitter.com/WordWhispers/status/154568303803768833

What is a home without children?  Quiet.  ~Henny YoungmanFCN

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  ~Pearl S. Buck

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again.  ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762LCD

Pausing to listen to an airplane in the sky, stooping to watch a ladybug on a plant, sitting on a rock to watch the waves crash over the quayside – children have their own agendas and timescales.  As they find out more about their world and their place in it, they work hard not to let adults hurry them.  We need to hear their voices.  ~Cathy Nutbrown

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  ~Frederick Douglass

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  ~Joe Houldsworth

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.  ~Red SkeltonFCN

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  ~Phyllis Dillerquoted in The Last Word, ch. 16, ed. Carolyn Warner, 1992, FW

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.  ~William StaffordSD

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.  ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone SceltoRC

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often. ~Author Unknown

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

Boy, n.:  a noise with dirt on it.  ~Not Your Average Dictionary

Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.  ~Author Unknown

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they’ll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it:  little men already.  ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688RC

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a dark moment I ask, “How can anyone bring a child into this world?” And the answer rings clear, “Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it.” ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982not John W Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983, see email from Marc Postman; PMB

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  ~Fran Lebowitz

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  ~Edgar W. HoweLLDT

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four – of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.  ~Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985, introduction, FW