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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.
Madonnaborn 1958
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862)In context
Kids are cute, babies are cute, puppies are cute. The little things are cute. See, nature did this on purpose so that we would want to take care of our young. Made them cute. Tricked us. Then gradually they get older and older, until one day your mother sits you down and says, ‘You know, I think you’re ugly enough to get your own apartment.’
CLCathy Ladmanborn 1955
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain1835–1910
- Intelligence
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Robert Frost1874–1963Interview in Writers at Work (1963)
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller1917–2012
You make ‘em, I amuse ‘em.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991Statement about children, as quoted in Enter, Conversing (1962) by Clifton Fadiman, p. 108
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Mark Twain1835–1910Letter to Annie Moffett Webster (1 September 1876)
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.”
T. S. Eliot1888–1965
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions⁠—everyone but a school bus driver.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant⁠—and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde1928–2023The Merry Book of Christmas
- Christianity
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Education