"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."
"Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!"
"For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you."
"Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child."
"There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles."
"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."
"It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple."
"Children have neither past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do."
"It is a moment of pure ecstasy and satisfaction when you see a smile flicker on baby's lips, just as they gently pass into a deep slumber."
"All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood-all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience."
"You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket."
"Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact, the family brings up baby by being brought up by him."
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."
"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving."
"This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven."
"I loved you from the very start. You stole my breath, embraced my heart. Our life together has just begun. You're part of me, my little one."
"Having my baby fall asleep in my arms takes away all of my worries and stresses. A sense of complete and total peace comes over me."
"Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky."
"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
"Make no mistake about why these babies are here-they are here to replace us."
"It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into."
"Fairy tales do come true. Look at us, we had you."
"A toddler can do more in one unsupervised moment than most people can do all day."
"Something tells me I am going to love him forever."
"Before I got married I had six theories about raising children. Now, I have six children and no theories."
"A happy baby has shining eyes. It walks open-hearted into the world and spreads magic."
"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever."
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