Quotes by Authors - Page 181

I read one psychologist's theory that said "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
Erma Bombeck
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
Richard Armour
Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.
Anonymous
The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.
Philip Roth
I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.
Erma Bombeck
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Rita Rudner
I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
Mary Karr
The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.
Woody Allen
It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.
Anonymous
A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.
Anonymous
My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.
Max Kaufman
They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?
Bob Thomas
Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
Amy Tan
Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
Anonymous
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.
Jerry Seinfeld
Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Brooks Adams
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Wilfred Peterson
It is not the talking that counts between friends it is the never needing to say what counts.
Shawn Green
It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.
Mary Dixon Thayer
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Doug Larson
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first.
Lois Wyse
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O.A. Battista
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Jill Churchill
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
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
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.
Frank Smith
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
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
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
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R.D. Laing
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
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill
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
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw no pity it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
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
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
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