17 September, 2008

just cute.

"God sent children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race--to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our facilities to extended enterprise and exertion; and to living round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts."--Mary Botham Howitt

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."--Rose Kennedy

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."--G. K. Chesterton

"What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way."--Jean Illsley Clarke (Self-Esteem: A Family Affair)