Top 1200 Having Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth; having hearts that are never moved and therefore never set on fire. These are the things to fear, said the headmaster.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

It's about self-sacrifice. Since having children, I've worked, but I've maintained the balance of being at home as well.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.

I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.

I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.

The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.

I really have a heart for children who suffer from cancer. I can't imagine having to go through that at such a young age.

Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

Having children has no bearing on the ability to be PM. I deeply regret that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

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

Another very interesting chapter is the education of children: the victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. For example, the needs of a job. When the dad doesn't have free time to speak to his children, when the mother doesn't have time to speak with her children.

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

Nobody knows I'm different. Or they may know, but they don't know how different and they don't know what this thing is that's driving me because I can't... this is... these are charges ... which I understand having got two children of my own and having had these mad thoughts myself that you know, I've got to get out there and do something. I don't know what it is, but it's got to be interesting.

It is no small thing that the juiciest and most complicated roles of my life have come post-having two children.

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say they protect their children, but they’re really protecting themselves. Besides, you can’t protect children. They know everything.

I look at my children and I am thrilled that my body will never be the same after having them. They were worth it!

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.

How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF - a miracle that has allowed legions of loving people, both straight and gay, to fulfill their dream of having children, your archaic thinking is out of step with the times, just like your fashions. I shall never wear Dolce and Gabbana ever again.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

Children and other Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories are particularly vulnerable to having the SSNs misused for synthetic identities.

I didn't get round to having children until I was 35, and then I wasn't around very much.

That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.