"A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium."
-MARY KAY BLAKELY
"We are together, my child and I.  Mother and child, yes, but sisters really, against whatever denies us all that we are."
-ALICE WALKER
"My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it."
-JUDY BLUME
"It will be gone before you know it.  The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher.  Then suddenly they disappear."
-DOROTHY EVSLIN
"For me, motherhood has been the one true, great and wholly successful romance.  It is the only love I have known that is expansive and that could have stretched to contain with equal passion more than one object."
-IRMA KURTZ
"The presidency is temporary--but the family is permanent."
-YVONNE DE GAULLE
"Loving a child is a circular business...the more you give, the more you get, the more you get, the more you want to give."
-PENELOPE LEACH
"To heir is human."
-DOLORES E. MCGUIRE
"If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family."
-LAURENCE HOUSMAN
"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he is can no longer see the birds  or hear them sing."
-ERIC BERNE
"Everyone is the Child of his past."
-EDNA G. ROSTOW
"In every real man there is a child hidden that wants to play."
-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents."
-WILL ROGERS
"By the time the youngest children have learned to keep the house tidy, the oldest grandchildren are on hand to tear it to pieces."
-CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-WINSTON CHURCHILL
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
-NORMAN DOUGLAS
"Mothers of prejudiced children, far more often than mothers of unprejudiced children, held that obedience is the most important thing a child can learn."
-GORDON W. ALPORT
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and let him know that you trust him."
-BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
-SOMERSET MAUGHAM
"Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training."
-ANNA FREUD
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrity."
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
"To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady."
-WILSON MIZNER
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking."
-MARTIN H. FISCHER
"There is nothing wrong with teenagers that telling them won't aggravate."
-J.B. PRIESTLEY
"If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon."
-ROBERT LOWELL
"What is moral is what you feel good after."
-ERNEST HEMINGWAY
"'Tis education forms the common mind:  Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
-ALEXANDER POPE
"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm."
-BILL VAUGHAN
"If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself."
-DOROTHY LAW NOLTE
"He embraced me and now I am someone else; someone else in the pulse that repeats in the pulse of my own veins and in the breath that mingles with my breath.  Now my belly is as noble as my heart."
-GABRIEL MISTRAL
"Life is but an endless series of experiments."
-M.K. GANDHI
