Frank Zappa Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, House, Parent

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

• My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Advice, Healthy

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

• As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Mean, Ideas

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

• If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Sleep, Lame

• Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, School, Church

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

• I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Children, Growing Up

  Appearance on CBS Morning News, September 18, 1985.

• While your children are sleeping, your puppy is crappin'.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Sleep, Animal

• What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Moon, Men

  Song: A Few Moments With Brother A. West, Album: The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, 1991

• I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Thinking, Parent

• The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?

  Frank Zappa

  Christian, Children, Doors

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

• Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Writing, School

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