Fran Lebowitz: Child

Fran Lebowitz is author and public speaker from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on child.

Fran Lebowitz: 68 quotes 5 likes

“I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

Fran Lebowitz

"Words Are Easy, Books Are Not," interview with Bob Morris, The New York Times (1994-08-10), Late Edition, Section C, page 1, column 1.

Children , Adulthood

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”

Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies

"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)

For Parents

“Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.”

Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies

"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)

Books , Education , Disappointment , Dance

“Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.”

Fran Lebowitz book Social Studies

" Parental Guidance https://books.google.com/books?id=xCV8OXwBuNcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22fran+lebowitz%22+%22parental+guidance%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX3rO2xPvPAhXl1IMKHbrqAqAQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Parental%20Guidance%20s%22&f=false".
Social Studies (1981)

“How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.”

Fran Lebowitz

Reported in Ginai Bellafante, " Opinions You Won’t Find on Twitter: Fran Lebowitz Talks http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/arts/television/22lebowitz.html?pagewanted=2, The New York Times (November 21, 2010).
Other

“Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.”

Fran Lebowitz book Metropolitan Life

"Digital Clocks and Pocket Calculators: Spoilers of Youth" (p. 84).
Metropolitan Life (1978)