"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone

"Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage." - Marcelene Cox

"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories." - John Wilmo

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum

"If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent." - Bette Davis

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." - Abigail Van Buren

"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for." - Ogden Nash, "The Parent," Happy Days, 1933.

"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give." - P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." - Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family.

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." - Chinese Proverb

"Kids spell love T-I-M-E." - John Crudele

"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out." - Erma Bombeck