1. All babies are beautiful. Jeanne Calment

2. Many things can wait; the child cannot. Gabriela Mistral To him we cannot say tomorrow; his name is today. Now is the time his bones are being formed, his mind is being developed.

3. Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone even ourselves Polly Berrien Berends

4. love stronger days shorter and the future worth living for bankroll smaller home happier clothes shabbier nights longer A baby will make … the past forgotten

5. There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela

6. C hildren are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

7. A child is a curly dimpled lunatic. Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. There are no 7 wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. Walt Streightiff There are 7 million.

9. ...you are the mother, advocate, and protector of a child with a disability. You’ve developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil... Lori Borgman

10. No one likes change Barbara Johnson but babies in diapers.

11. L et us put our minds together S itting Bull and see what life we can make for our children.

12. N othing you do for a child is ever wasted. Garrison Keillor

13. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ~~Mark Twain

14. A mother’s heart… Ed Dussault …is a baby’s most beautiful dwelling.

15. Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head & a pair of lungs. Eugene Field

16. Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere & into here ~~ George MacDonald | At the Back of the North Wind

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

18. L ife affords no greater responsibility C. Everett K oop no greater privilege than the raising of the next generation.

19. G o as far as you can see… Thomas Carlyle W hen you get there, you’ll be able to see further.

20. E very child begins the world again. Henry David Thoreau