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Children Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
- Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease…
- How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.
- Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many -…
- Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more…
- Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
- Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not…
- Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you…
- Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
- I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
- All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
- Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
- Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
- Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
- If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
- I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is…
- Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
- Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand.…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster