“ My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. Evelyn Waugh
“ If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infini… Dave Barry
“ In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. Michael Jackson
“ You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart. Elizabeth Berg
“ Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be? Michael Jackson
“ Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. Jennifer Crusie
“ I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway d… Neil Gaiman
“ A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can… Patty Smith
“ If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother o… Anna Quindlen
“ My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. Christopher Hitchens
“ We have to actually choose a name, Kane murmured above her head. We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it. Christine Feehan
“ Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane.Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?Is t… Christine Feehan
“ He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy l… Jhumpa Lahiri
“ Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still c… Holly Black
“ Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment. Jessalyn Gilsig
“ Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics. Audrey Hepburn
“ Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outc… Marian Wright Edelman
“ In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in n… Judy Blume
