Quotes

After having such a wonderful night, I find myself reflecting on happy thoughts and good things this morning. I am so grateful for the beautiful things in my life.



"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."---Ashley Montagu

"I, who was never quite sure about being a girl, needed another life, and another image to remind me...I made you to find me."---Anne Sexton

"You were such a wanted baby. I would rub my belly in awe of your growing. Sit motionless waiting for your kicks and stretches. Think of you, wonder about you, wait for you---totally caught in the miracle of your coming to life. First child, child of hope, child of commitment."---Julie Owen Edwards

"One a child is born, it is no longer in our power not to love it nor care about it."---Epictetus

"Seeing you sleeping on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears, and basset hounds would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever."---Joan Baez

"Think always that, having the child at your breast, and having it in your arms, you have God's blessing there."---Elizabeth Clinton

"It is a feeling of intimacy and exclusiveness...a warm, lazy intimate gaiety. I feel a...need to laugh out in triumph, because of this marvelous, precarious, immortal human being."---Doris Lessing

"My daughter's birth was the incomparable gift of seeing the world at quite a different angle than before and judging it by standards that would apply far beyond my natural life."---Alice Walker

"A good daughter is like a good piece of writing: candid, lyrical, graceful, moving, alive. I have seen a young girl walk across a room, intent on her intense errand, and it was like seeing a voice become visible, as if not her tongue but her motion said, 'I will do this for my life.'"---Paul Engle

"I can do one of two things. I can be president of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."---Theodore Roosevelt

"Children are the living messages to a time we will not see."---John W. Whitehead

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."---Walt Streightiff

"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world tips away when we look into our children's faces."---Louise Erdrich