Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life. -Maureen Hawkins

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  -John W. Whitehead

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

Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  -Author Unknown

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  -Phyllis Diller

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  -Joe Houldsworth

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  -Frederick Douglass

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.  -Robert Brault

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.  -Walt Streightiff

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.  -Author Unknown

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children. -Rosaleen Dickson

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. -Dr. Haim Ginott

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. -Pablo Casals

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. -Henry Ward Beecher

The soul is healed by being with children. -English Proverb

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.  -Robert Brault

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.  -Terri Guillemets

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. -William Stafford