Quotes to Inspire

These are some quotes I have found that I hope to inspire some of my layouts!

• You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus
• Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~Marcelene Cox
• The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse
• Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland
• My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time. ~Karen Brown
• If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
• The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough
• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. ~Erma Bombeck
• Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance. ~Robert Brault

ETA: More!

• Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood
• Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher
• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ~Edgar W. Howe