Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn't do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl's mother.

My mom and I have been through a lot. But when you think about it, whose life is perfect? It is just really good because we did this together.

My sister, like our mother, always put her children first.

The relationship between a mother and child is more than just give and take; it is magical.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

I don't like going away from my children.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

I love my family, they love me. And my little brothers, they're like my sons. I raised them.

I love my brothers' kids. It's funny - as an uncle, you become so protective of them.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.