“Awards are not as important to me as when I meet a 10-year-old kid who says, "I love Captain Jack Sparrow.”— Johnny Depp, amazon.com
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”— Johnny Depp, m.imdb.com
“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.”— Jack Thorne, Albus Dumbledore, amazon.com
“Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Little kids, little problems. Wait till you’ve got drugs and sex and social media to worry about.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Took the kids to their first Broadway show today: The Lion King. Mine was 25 years ago: Les Miserables. It's the circle of life...”— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com
“I have a life. A real life. I don't need to be defined by a husband or children to have a real life.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Steve Jobs was adopted. He asked his parents if that meant they didn't love him: No, you have to understand. We specifically picked you out.”— Walter Isaacson, amazon.com
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”— Mark Twain, ibtimes.co.uk
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”— Charles Wadworth, ibtimes.co.uk
“A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.”— Carol Coats, ibtimes.co.uk
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.com
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”— Maurice Sendak, amazon.com
“When people ask me what it’s like to be a parent, I say that it’s among the hardest things you’ll ever do, but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”— Nicholas Sparks, Noah Calhoun, amazon.com
“You're really bad at babysitting. You never had to take care of a younger sibling, so you have no idea how to hold a baby or entertain a young child.”— Pai-Lin Hunnibell, theodysseyonline.com
“Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com