Quotes by American Authors - Page 176

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.
Wayne Dyer
Those who love the young best stay young longer.
Edgar Friedenberg
Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.
Alan Jay Lerner
Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.
Conrad Hyers
Teaching kids to count is fine but teaching them what counts is best.
Bob Talbert
By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
Wayne Dyer
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.
Groucho Marx
The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.
Henry Miller
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff
Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
Bel Kaufman
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert G. Ingersoll
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George Will
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F Kennedy
Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.
Louise Hart
Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
Eudora Welty
To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Barbara Bush
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.
Lois Wyse
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
Lewis Mumford
Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong not by number of heads counted at the dinner table but by the rituals you help family members create by the memories you share by the commitment of time caring and love you show to one another and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
Marge Kennedy
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold
You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love they have always been in love although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them even their own failures.
Ernest Havemann
Of course if you like your kids if you love them from the moment they begin you yourself begin all over again in them and with them.
William Saroyan
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.
Frank Pittman
Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.
Ashley Montagu
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.
Margaret Mead
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
The family is the American fascism.
Paul Goodman
As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings
The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
Randall Jarrell
There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.
Leon R. Yankwich
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H.L. Mencken
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky
A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
Benjamin Franklin
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee
Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
George Steiner
That sovereign of insufferables.
Ambrose Bierce
Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.
Cleveland Amory
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
False in one thing false in everything
Law Maxim
There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All wise people say the same thing that you are deserving of love and that it's all here now everything you need. When you pray you are not starting the conversation from scratch just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.
Anne Lamott
God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford