Quotes About Children

When I retired from the military, I come home. And the reason why I got into politics is, you know, I spent a lot of time away from my wife and my kids. And I come home, and I found out I have kids in my backyard that have it worse than the children I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine.

I'm very active in making sure my children are well-adjusted and balanced.

Me and my family, we sort of had this plan to... once we had kids, we had a plan that about every six years we'd move to a new country. So, when we had kids, we moved to Bali for six years, then we went to Australia for six years.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

We have seen a lot of barriers removed for women like myself with young children to be able to run for office.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.

I just feel like kids learn by example, and if you want to teach your kid to be kind, you can't be mean at them.

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.

One of our goals is to encourage other families and parents that their marriage can be strong even if they have kids.

I'm obsessed with New York. I want to marry it, maybe bear a few children with 42nd Street.

Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.