Respect

"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

- Billy Graham

Make Time

"No matter how big and bad you are, when a two-year-old hands you a toy phone, answer it."

- Unknown

Intelligent Choice of Investment

"Five good children are an immense luxury, and to deny one's self other luxuries in order to raise them is not self-denial at all, but merely an intelligent choice of investment."

- Edward Sandford Martin, The Luxury of Children (1904)

Life

"Live the way you wish your kids would."

- Unknown

Cause for Celebration

"More than marking a loss today, we chose instead to celebrate life. For no matter how brief, life is a cherished gift.... When a child enters your life, it is a cause for celebration, a time to rejoice that should not be measured by the passage of time but rather by the goodness of God’s sovereignty."

- An excerpt from Life is an Memorial by Jay Cookingham on his blog Soulfari