Quotes About Children

I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.

Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute - you know, very precious - but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.

We talk a lot about our abundant natural resources, but we need to talk more about the most precious natural resource God has entrusted to us - our children.

You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

With children, I feel so safe in my predictable world. They will never leave me.

'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.

Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer.

I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.

The LGBTQ community refers to people's sexual preferences - lesbians like women, gay people like men - and children shouldn't be walking advertisements for sexuality when they are not old enough to make their own decisions.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

I've had great pregnancies, and healthy, beautiful children.

Of course everybody is different, but if you're having a strong, healthy pregnancy, there's not a lot you can do to hurt it. That being said, we should do as right as we can by our children, but we just need to be a little more forgiving of ourselves and not so much perfectionists because it's hard enough as it is.

I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.

I want to have my children, but I don't want to look like I have them. You're not really allowed to say that. Some days I go, 'It is what it is.' But sometimes I carry it around like a shame that I've gained so much weight while I was pregnant, and I lost control.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

When I was pregnant with Alijah, little Hank would have all these questions. Where do babies come from? So I was open with him.

I feel like having children - and the illness I had when I was pregnant - is probably more important than anything else to the person I am now. I'm massively aware of how we can take everything for granted - how fragile life is.

I hadn't planned to have kids, I didn't even know I was pregnant until four months in.

When I told Carmen I was pregnant with another boy, she came to me and said, 'Mommy, how about you have another girl then you can have another boy?' And I told her it doesn't work that way.

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!