Quotes About Children

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

I think women with children are better than men. This is only my opinion. Might be 'cos me Mum brought me up. I think maternally, they just take to being a parent quicker than men.

Kids are as discerning as adults, if anything they are quicker and clearer in knowing what they like.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'

I treat people throughout the year, my mates with children, every time I see them I give them 40 quid, or I go to Amazon and get them a gift- no one goes without.

When you have a house full of children, there's never a quiet moment, so I like getting out in the garden for a bit of time to myself.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

We try not to flaunt our family too much. I know it works for some people, but while our children are small I want them to grow up quietly and normally.

I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn't the natural mother that I always thought I would be. I adore children, but I was never that interested in newborn babies.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation.

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

I'm not really the kind of person that wanted this kind of big attention everywhere. But on the other side, I'm glad that children are picking up a racket and they have an idol in myself.