"The essential thing about mothers--one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence."
-MARGOT FONTEYN
"No man can ever appreciate the debt he owes his mother, but sometimes a little thing may come up to set him thinking."
-EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
-DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER
"The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation."
-IRIS MURDOCH
"I know not how to part, with tolerable ease, from the little creature."
-MARY ROWLANDSON
"I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him."
-MARGARET DRABBLE
"Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the possibilities of the future."
-GELSEY KIRKLAND
"A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon."
-JOAN RIVERS
"You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance."
-FRANKLIN P. JONES
"A characteristic of a normal child is he doesn't act that way very often."
-FRANKLIN P. JONES
"The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything."
-LAURENCE J. PETER
"Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
-FRANKLIN P. JONES
"Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own."
-JOHN MASON BROWN
"Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up."
-JOHN MASON BROWN
"Likely or not, the child you can do the least with will make you the most proud."
-MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
"The fault no child ever loses is the one he is most punished for."
-CESARE BECCARIA
"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."
-SAMUEL BUTLER
"The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be his parent."
-MEL LAZARUS
"To often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
-ROGER LEWIN
"Children are a great comfort in your old age--and they help you reach it faster, too."
-LIONEL KAUFFMAN
"Insanity is hereditary.  You can get it from your children."
-SAM LEVENSON
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
-HERBERT HOOVER
"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
-HAROLD S. HULBERT
"In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time."
-HAROLD S. HULBERT
"Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give."
-U.N. DECLARATION
"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
-LEO J. BURKE
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
-JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
"You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
-JOHN J. PLOMP
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children.  One of these is roots;  the other, wings."
-HODDING CARTER
"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for."
-OGDEN NASH
"A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain."
-MARION ZIMMERMAN BRADLEY
