"A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions." - Richard L Evans

"My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am." - Author Unkown

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - John Bowring

"Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts." - Unknown 

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." - Johanne Schiller

"It takes hands to build a house but only hearts can build a home." - Anon 

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children." - Clarence Darrow

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant-and let the air out of the tires." - Dorothy Parker

"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers." - John J. Plomp

"Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes." - Lawana Blackwell

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." - Oscar Wilde

"The reason that grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy." - Sam Levenson

"By the time a man realises that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son that thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." - Dorothy C. Fisher

"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children." - Elain Heffner

"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears." - Ellen Goodman

"There is... nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people." - H. R. Schaffer

"The most important thing she'd learnt over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one." - Jill Churchill

"What children take from us, they give... We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply and love more deeply." - Sonia Taitz

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at the people who belong to us we see the past, the present, and the future." - Gail Lumet Buckley

"I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted." - Spencer W. Kimball

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elizabeth Kubler Ross

"1 mother + 1 daughter = 2 best friends" - Unknown

"A family is a little world created by love." - Unknown

"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it." - Harold S. Hulbert