"It is dangerous to confuse children with angels."
-DAVID FYFE
"Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never."
-ANNA JOHNSON
"It is a wise child that knows his own father."
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"A child is fed with milk and praise."
-MARY LAMB
"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."
-RAY L. WILBUR
"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children."
-OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
"Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your own children;  he wants to talk about the smartness of his children."
-ED HOWE
"Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children."
-RICHARD HENRY DANA
"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet:  there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
-MARCELENE COX
"We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up."
-CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"Ah!  what would the world be to us  If the children were no more?  We  should dread the desert behind us  Worse than the dark before."
-HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Allow children to be happy their own way;  for what better way will they ever find?"
-DR SAMUEL JOHNSON
"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
-THE TALMUD
"Infancy conforms to nobody;  all conform to it."
-RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething."
-MARK TWAIN
"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off."
-ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
"The ideal mother,  like the ideal marriage, is fiction."
-MILTON R. SAPERSTEIN
"Oh, my son's my son 'til he gets a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."
-D. CRAIK
"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."
-NANCY FRIDAY
"My first job is to be a good mother."
-FAYE DUNAWAY
"There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast."
-ERMA BOMBECK
"If you must give your child lessons, send him to driving school.  He is far more likely to end up owning a Datsun than he is a Stradivarius."
-FRAN LEBOWITZ
"The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable."
-LANE OLINHOUSE
"The phrase "working mother" is redundant."
-JANE SELLMAN
"Cleaning the house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
-PHYLLIS DILLER
"When you work with adults, you're working with people who are usually rational and make an effort to keep some sort of schedule.  When you have a child, just the opposite happens:  things are unscheduled, chaotic."
-WENDY SCHULMAN
"My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do.  I love her for that.  I love that she wanted to give birth to her own wings."
-ERICA JONG
"Women as the guardians of children possess great power.  They are the molders of their children's personalities and the arbiters of their development."
-ANN OAKLEY
"There is a point where you aren't as much mother and daughter as you are adults and friends."
-JAMIE LEE CURTIS
