"All children smile in the same language."
-BUMPERSTICKER
"You cannot write for children...They're much too complicated.  You can only write books that are of interest to them."
-MAURICE SENDAK
"There is no perfect mother...except through your own child's eyes."
-ELISA MEDHUS, M.D.
"I always brought up my children not to believe in Mother's Day gifts, and now I regret it."
-LAUREN BACALL
"Full-time mothering is a tremendously hard job;  the heroic women who do it are to be applauded."
-TINA BROWN
"Yes, a mother is one thing that nobody can do without.  And when you have harassed her, buffeted her about, tried her patience, and worn her out, and it seems that the end of the world is about to descend upon you, then you can win her back with four little words.  'Mom, I love you!'"
-WILLIAM A. GREENBAUM II
"Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries."
-T. DEWITT TALMAGE
"Motherhood has been the most joyous and important experience of my life. I would die for my children."
-CARLY SIMON
""You agrees to get up nights."  This is true.  I stumble into the nursery, pick up my son, so small, so perfect, and as he fastens himself to me like a tiny, sucking minnow I am flooded with tenderness."
-SARA DAVIDSON
"In search of my mother's garden I found my own."
-ALICE WALKER
"My mother gave me the example of the completely dedicated life.  In my father, this was translated into action, and in my mother into silence.  We all live from what woman has taught us of the sublime."
-POPE PAUL VI
"We bear the world and we make it...There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
-OLIVE SCHREINER
"Childhood is the sleep of reason."
-JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
"Children are the sworn enemies of all conventionality."
-ANONYMOUS
"When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders."
-ERNEST DINNET
"In a secular age, children have become the last sacred objects."
-JOSEPH EPSTEIN
"Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every child's library."
-C. LENOX REMOND
"Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am."
-REBECCA RICHARDS
"She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along."
-MARGARET CULKIN BANNING
"You can choose your friends, but you only have one mother."
-MAX SHULMAN
"I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children;  now I am morbidly obsessed by seat belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school."
-MARGARET DRABBLE
"Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report.  Run out and find me a four-year-old child.  I can't make head or tail out of it."
-GROUCHO MARX
"In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV."
-ERMA BOMBECK
"Childhood smells of perfume and brownies."
-DAVID LEAVITT
"Spinach:  Divide into little piles.  Rearrange again into new piles.  After five or six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full."
-DELIA EPHRON
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."
-MARK TWAIN
"Everybody's mother still cares."
-LILLIAN HELLMAN
"I've become a mother.  That's why women grow up and men don't."
-KATHLEEN CLEAVER
"Babies do not want to hear about babies;  they like to be told of giants and castles."
-DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
"A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows."
-JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
"One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for."
-GLENDA JACKSON
