#child

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#best way #children #distresses #insist #lives

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#although #children #donkeys #i #never

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#being #brother #children #family #had

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#books #children #future #like #talk

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#be nice #because #children #choose #home

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#away #children #going #home #keeps

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#away #bottle #children #follow #keep

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#parents-and-children #family

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#great #great people #growing #growing up #had