Quotes About Children

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

That's the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.

The one thing that I won't sacrifice is taking care of my kids. I want to make sure I fulfill that commitment.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.

I feel that adoption is a good idea to control population. This would also help orphaned children grow up in a normal way in a family atmosphere that is so important in today's time. The only thing you need is a large heart.

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Every father loves their children. I love my two sons very dearly. The only thing that is important to me is that they do what they want to do. They shouldn't feel a sense of obligation.

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

My kids are not allowed to be fussy eaters. The problem with fussy children is their stupid parents. I run a family kitchen and in my house we don't have options. I never had options, why should they?

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

My advice for parents is to support your children, make sure they are having fun. Support them and be there for them. Give them encouragement and make it a life lesson that along the way they are learning to make good decisions and do the right thing.

Protecting children from smoking in cars is the right thing to do.

The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.