"It's like everything's fresh and new. Life becomes like looking through a child's eyes. As parents, you have an opportunity to see things fresh again." TobyMac

"Everything changed for me when she was born. Everything. You understand why wars are fought, you understand why men want to own land, you understand why women are so smart, because they have to be... It really did turn my life upside down." Bono (on the birth of his first child)

"There are some exceptional individuals who are able to reach for the sublime by making music, painting pictures--or playing baseball, but for ordinary mortals like myself, it's often a child who helps us 'touch the face of God.'" Sylvia Ann Hewlett

"It is no small thing when they who are so fresh from God, love us." Charles Dickens

"Babies are always more trouble than you thought--and more wonderful." Charles Osgood

"[Parenting] is a journey fraught with potential pain and disappointment, but also unspeakable joy and satisfaction." Dr. James Dobson