I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage my kids and my grandchildren. If you don't have that you really don't have very much.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance they demand so much attention that a husband and wife concentrating on their children fail to notice each other's faults.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy even when they're wild with kid energy.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old the incurable the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

The distinction between children and adults while probably useful for some purposes is at bottom a specious one I feel. There are only individual egos crazy for love.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants and giraffes and crocodiles and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children and enjoy it.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

Give a child love laughter and peace not AIDS.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this this isn't him. This is not him.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

A father may turn his back on his child brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies husbands may desert their wives wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I have no hostility to nature but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

Christmas my child is love in action. Every time we love every time we give it's Christmas.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.