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Quotes on Age, Boys, Cleanliness, Family, Fun, Future, Girls, Love, Putting Kids to Bed, School and Wisdom

Age

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

Boys

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

Cleanliness

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  ~Fran Lebowitz
 
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  ~Phyllis Diller

Family

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

Fun

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

-Bill Cosby

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 Vaughan

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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

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, 1762

Future

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  ~Stacia Tauscher
 
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  ~John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983
 
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.  ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
 
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  ~Pearl S. Buck

Girls

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. ~Author Unknown

Love

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

Putting Kids to Bed

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  ~Robert Gallagher
 
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.  ~Red Skelton
 
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  ~Joe Houldsworth

School

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. Howe

Wisdom

You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  ~Franklin P. Jones
 
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  ~Author Unknown
 
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  ~Rabindranath Tagore
 
Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.  ~Franklin P. Jones
 
Children make you want to start life over.  ~Muhammad Ali
 
Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  ~Author Unknown
 
What is a home without children?  Quiet.  ~Henny Youngman
 
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.  ~Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto
 
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.  ~Frank A. Clark
 
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  ~Walt Streightiff 
 
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.  ~Robert Benchley
 
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
-Christopher Morely
 
Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
-Jedi Master Yoda
 
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
-Walt Disney
 
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
-Fran Lebowitz
 
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
-Bill Cosby
 
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
-Marcel Proust
 
You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  
~Franklin P. Jones