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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother
— Mark Twain
I love you, Cassie Dawson. I love you and I love our little..." With a sudden start, Red remembered something vital. A tiny spurt of fear flashed in Cassie's eyes. "What is it?" Red said, chagrined, "I just realized I don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl.
— Mary Connealy
Children make you want to start life over.
— Muhammad Ali
And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
— Genesis 11:25
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
— Deuteronomy 28:41
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
— 1 Kings 3:18
After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.
— Hosea 1:8
Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.
— Lisa Wingate
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
— Margaret Mead
Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
— Theodore Roosevelt