Gore Vidal Quotes

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

I've worked with children all my life.

There's increasing evidence on both sides of the Atlantic that when babies, beginning in the first or even the second year of life, spend long hours in childcare centers and maybe even with child minders, that as they go to school they're more likely to be more aggressive and disobedient than are other children.… that seems to be the case even when they've been, if you would, in better quality or good quality nurseries and child minder settings.

It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Children are f - king crazy. They're also suicidal.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.

Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit!

Children are capable of such open rudeness.