1. Every cliché about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy. - Liam Neeson 

2. It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei. - Cindy Crawford 

3. Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first. - Dale Archer 

4. Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. - Russell Baker 

5. Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. - Nadia Boulanger 

6. Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. - Muriel Spark 

7. Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. - Clive Owen 

8. Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. - Kelly LeBrock 

9. Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. - Lynn Johnston 

10. The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. - Gilbert Highet 

11. My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. - John H. Johnson 

12. It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad. - Pauline Phillips 

13. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents. - Gloria Swanson 

14. That's my ideal day, time with my boys. - Kenny G 

15. Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. - Alan Thicke 

16. I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through. - Harry Connick, Jr. 

17. The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. - Kamisese Mara 

18. Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. - Martin Mull 

19. I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. - Norma Shearer 

20. There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. - Ayelet Waldman 

21. I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. - Susie Bright 

22. Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. - John Boehner 

23. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus. - Todd Tiahrt 

24. Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. - Todd Tiahrt 

25. No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. - Marcelene Cox 

26. My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. - Marion Jones 

27. Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. - Robbie Coltrane 

28. Having children with someone is the real bond. - Francesca Annis 

29. Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. - Evan Bayh 

30. I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies. - June Allyson 

31. My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning. - Gena Lee Nolin 

32. Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. - Bob Filner 

33. You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship. - Connie Sellecca 

34. There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children. - Andrew Shue 

35. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend. - Stephen Mangan 

36. There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. - Anthony Edwards 

37. I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. - Jill Clayburgh 

38. Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. - Robert Cormier 

39. When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. - Robert Evans 

40. The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. - Polly Berrien Berends 

41. Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. - Polly Berrien Berends