First Child Quotes
![Anna Benson quote: "I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at..."](/pic/34112/600x316/quotation-anna-benson-ive-always-been-a-headstrong-girl-i-had-my-first.jpg)
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
Barbara Kingsolver
![Robert Huber quote: "I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of..."](/pic/176689/600x316/quotation-robert-huber-i-was-born-february-20-1937-in-munchen-as-the.jpg)
![Harry Mathews quote: "I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our..."](/pic/167836/600x316/quotation-harry-mathews-i-graduated-in-1952-and-went-to-europe-with-niki.jpg)
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of...
Sidney Poitier