"A child without a mother is like a door without a knob."
-JEWISH PROVERB
"Love them, feed them, discipline them and let them go free.  You may have a lifelong good relationship."
-MARY G.L. DAVIS
"All that I am my mother made me."
-JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
"Integral to being emotionally healthy is to have a mother who has the ability to respect her child's differences and not perceive them as betrayals.  A good mother can allow her child to be less than perfect."
-VICTORIA SEGUNDA
"Babies are such a nice way to start people."
-DON HEROLD
"One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still."
-R.G. INGERSOLL
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it."
-GEORGE ELIOT
"Only child life is real life."
-GEORGE ORWELL
"No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child."
-VICTOR HUGO
"Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."
-JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
"Motherhood is being available to your children whenever they need you, no matter what their age or their need."
-MAJOR DORIS PENGILLY
"Mom, I love you and I thank you for what you did for me, but I'll never tell you, so I'll have to put it in a song."
-GARTH BROOKS
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
-ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-GEORGE ELIOT
"The enthusiasm which must be held in check was a great burden for the child's soul...to restrain meant to kill, to bury."
-ANAIS NIN
"Boyhood is a summer sun."
-EDGAR ALLEN POE
"It is a happy talent to know how to play."
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart."
-DANISH PROVERB
"There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it."
-J.C. BRIDGE
"Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness."
-WALLACE STEGNER
"Women make us poets, children make us philosophers."
-MALCOLM DE CHAZAL
"Romance fails us--and so do friendships--but relationship of Mother and Child remains indelible and indestructible--the strongest bond upon this earth."
-THEODORE REIK
""Equal parenting" does not work--the maternal tuning in never turns off."
-PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY
"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
-FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL
"A child's love is like a water basket."
-SPANISH PROVERB
"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies."
-EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled."
-YUKIO MISHIMA
"Children have neither past nor future;  and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present."
-JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
"If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better changed in ourselves."
-C.G. JUNG
"...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
-C.S. LEWIS
"Children are the true connoisseurs.  What's precious to them has no price--only value."
-BEL KAUFMAN
