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Our children's children will hear a good story. -- Richard Adams, Watership Down
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp
The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski
Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb
Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now completely frappe!" -- Graham
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. -- Robert Orben
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld
Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov
I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde
The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic. -- Steven Wright
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt
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