"There is no friendship, no  love, like that of the parent for the child."
-HENRY WARD BEECHER
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."
-CLARENCE S. DARROW
"The wildest colts make the best horses."
-PLUTARCH
"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
-OSCAR WILDE
"The child is father of the man."
-WORDSWORTH
"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
-COLERIDGE
"Men are what their mothers make them."
-EMERSON
"For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
-WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears; they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other."
-FRANCIS BACON
"You are the bows from which your children are as living arrows sent forth."
-KAHIL GIBRAN
"Childhood is the kingdom where no one dies."
-EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"Give alittle love to a child, and you get a great deal back."
-JOHN RUSKIN
"Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last."
-CHARLES DICKENS
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
-GRAHAM GREENE
"You know more than you think you do."
-DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK
"I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
-HARRY S. TRUMAN
"My mother loved children-she would have given anything if I had been one."
-GROUCHO MARX
"The persons hardest to convince they're at retirement age are children at bedtime."
-SHANNON FIFE
"Infant care has to be learned from the bottom up."
-SHANNON FIFE
"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires."
-DOROTHY PARKER
"All events, except childbirth, can be reduced to a heap of trivia in the end."
-ANNE TYLER
"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect."
-ROSEANNE BARR
"You are the gate through which it came into the world, and you will be allowed to take charge of it for a period;  after that it will leave you and blossom out into its own free life--its life in freedom."
-AGATHA CHRISTIE
"I would like them to be the happy end of my story."
-MARGARET ATWOOD
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic.  It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
-ERICH FROMM
"The parents are the ones who get everything;  children are a gift you give yourself."
-LOUIS MALLE
"Everything about a new family takes time.  But we all want to share our lives, don't we?  Isn't that the most important thing?"
-JUDY BLUME
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
-SOPHIA LOREN
"There is an amazed curiosity in every young mother.  It is strangely miraculous to see and hold a living being formed within oneself and issued forth from oneself."
-SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
"The best thing a child can have is two parents who really love each other."
-RILDIA BEE CLIBURN
"It was life that would give her everything of consequence.  Life would shape her, not we.  All we were good for was to make the introductions."
-HELEN HAYES
