Having Children Quotes (page 9)

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• parents
• children
• people

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. Samuel Butler

• children
• energy
• acting

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is. Jessica Lange

• determination
• high school graduation
• avoiding

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. Rick Santorum

• children
• personality
• eating

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. David Brenner

• parents
• relationship
• impressive

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play. C. Everett Koop

• children
• purpose
• want

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle. Boris Kodjoe

• family
• children
• kids

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. Heidi Klum

• children
• not knowing
• them

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

• parents
• children
• caring

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them. Rita Rudner

• friend
• feel good
• she

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. Rita Rudner

• father
• children
• philosophy

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy. Ernestine L. Rose

• parents
• kindness
• children

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. Mindy Kaling

• mindfulness
• tired
• children

I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting. Melanie Roach

• focus
• life
• love

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. Louis de Bernieres

• value
• world
• work

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened. Patricia Richardson