Quotes on Childhood

In looking for a quote for the slideshow I made I came across these fun ones:

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~Franklin P. Jones

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
~Author Unknown

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
~Christopher Morley

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
~Bill Vaughan

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
~Fran Lebowitz

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. (**I love this one!)
~Not Your Average Dictionary

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

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
~Author Unknown

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.
~Author Unknown

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
~Phyllis Diller

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
~Red Skelton