Making the decision to have a child is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

There is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees the magical closed circle of two.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Parenthood is about guiding the next generation and forgiving the last.

Peter Krause