When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
Steven Wright

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

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.
Erma Bombeck

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
Erma Bombeck

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
Erma Bombeck

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato

Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine