Top 1200 Having Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.

People are like, 'Oh, they must be Catholic' or 'Oh, she must just want all of his money.' I'm like, 'If I wanted all of his money, why am I having so many children? Children are expensive!'

I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.

I think part of maturity as an actress comes from their experience in getting married and having children.

We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.

It's obvious that getting married and having children is a matter of personal freedom.

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

I love dogs, but they are a big responsibility, and with four children, having one would be too much.

I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that we don't need to read to children, but we don't need to just do it one time and feel good about it. I think we need to think long range about poor people and their relationship to libraries.

I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

See the world with the innocence of children. Approach the world with the daring of children. Love the world with the readiness of children. Heal the world with the purity of children. Change the world with the wisdom of children.

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Getting married and having children is an evolution process, a live social experiment no one is documenting.

Having small children with a dog that you don't know anything about can be risky.

It's sad when marriages don't work out but having no children made separating easier.

STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.

Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.

I love having my husband at home. Especially when I have to leave the country so he can take care of our children.

I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.

A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

Success is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is how women and businesses learn to embrace women having children.

Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.

The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

Having children is a great responsibility, and I don't want to have kids while I am still playing.

Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I heard they were proud because they lost very few fighters and that it was the civilians bearing the brunt of this. I don't think anyone should be proud of having many more children and women dead than armed men.

I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.