- Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
- Sophocles - A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper - The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
- Sydney J Harris - Children are the true connoisseurs.
What's precious to them has no price, only value.
- Bel Kaufman - We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - The best academy, a mother's knee.
- James Russell Lowell - The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
- Jean Kerr - If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm.
- Bruce Barton - We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
- Henry Ward Beecher - The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is hte best after all.
- Benjamin Spock