~ Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~
~ Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~
~ Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~
~ Children love to walk in their parent's shoes; make sure they have strong "souls". ~
~ Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content. ~
~ What children hear at home soon flies abroad ~
~ Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace ~
~ Children are poor men's riches ~
~ Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires ~
~ Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ~
~ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~
~ If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~