Top 1200 Having Children Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

I am very in favour of children having a nap after lunch because then they're not whiney and grizzly by six o'clock.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

It shouldn't be normal to be anxious all the time about your children, so women should seek mental health help if they're having excessive levels of anxiety.

All my music has always been about positive, having ambition, having goals, having dreams, and believing in yourself.

No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

I really try to focus on organizations, twofold, one that help people and/or beings that don't have other means of help. Particularly if they're hospitalized children, sick children, children that don't have homes, children that can't go to school, you know that's the future of this country and the future of this planet.

I'm a night person, but because of being in the film business and having children, my schedule has shifted, and I'm always terrified that I'm going to oversleep.

Michael and I will always be connected with the kids. I will always be there for him. I will always be there for the children. And people make remarks: 'I can't believe she left her children.' Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. My children are with their father, where they are supposed to be.

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.

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

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.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.

Having stayed in Singapore for a period of time, I've seen how parents here have high expectations of their children because they want their kids to do well.

I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear.

Having children changes your outlook 100 percent of your life.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

I feel like it's a natural progression for two people in love to talk about having children and taking that next step in creating a family.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not only a child, I was, better still, a weird little kid, and though I would never choose to give my own children this particular preparation for life, there are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

We all want our children to be the best they can be; and one of the blessings of having an autistic child is that you notice every little achievement, and it becomes cause for celebration.

Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.