I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt Disney

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven Wright

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
W. C. Fields