This document contains several quotes and sayings about motherhood and parenthood to congratulate Sonia and Scott on the birth of their child. The quotes discuss the joy, responsibility and lifelong impact of becoming a parent and raising children. They emphasize the importance of a parent's love, guidance and presence in a child's life.

1. Congratulations Sonia & Scott

2. In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3. Making the decision to have a child it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone

4. When you teach your son you teach your son’s son -The Talmud

5. Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Proverbs 31:10

6. Best Wishes Sonia!!

7. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

8. The hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that rules the world. W.R. Wallace

9. Men are what their mothers made them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. Harold Hulbert

11. Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes

12. Children and mothers never truly part - Bound in the beating of each other's heart. - Charlotte Gray

13. A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. - Sigmund Freud

14. In celebration of SCOTT A. PRICE II

15. Every child begins the world again . . . -Henry David Thoreau

16. Your children need your presence more than your presents. -Jesse Jackson

17. If I have a monument in this world, It is my son. -Maya Angelou

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19. Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin

20. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Fredrick Douglas

21. When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. -Mark Twain

22. Welcome to fatherhood Scott!!!

23. It is a wise father who knows his own child -William Shakespere

24. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Sigmund Freud

25. There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder. - Richard L. Evans

26. Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

27. In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage. -Bill Cosby, Fatherhood , 1986

28. There is so much to teach and the time goes so fast. - Erma Bombeck

29. There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. -Hodding Carter, Jr.

30. It will be gone before you know it. The fingerprints on the wall appear higher and higher. Then suddenly they disappear. - Dorothy Evslin