"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"