Quotes About Children

It's refreshing and weird when your kids get older and they're able to tell you how they feel and what they want.

It's refreshing to tell a story from a woman's point of view which says it's normal not to want kids.

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.

I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.

I am not willing to comment in public on the custody discussions regarding my children. What I will say is this: I am and always will be a mother first, but as a single working mom I will do everything necessary to provide for my kids despite the opinions of others.

I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.

What we want to do is guarantee all 4-year-old children in the City of Stamford a prekindergarten experience regardless of their financial circumstances.

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

Just having two kids now, regardless of what happens in the field, they're there to receive you with open arms every night after every game.

I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain ideas of black heritage and racial identity in their mixed-race children, regardless of how they look.

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

I don't regret anything about my younger career, mainly because we were children and didn't have too much power, but also because it gave us the privilege to be where we are now.

Honestly, I regret not having spanked my kids.

I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.

With my kids I just missed so many things, and that's a regret I have.

I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.

Later in life there should not be any regrets. Sometimes you have children too early and regret it, 'If I wouldn't have, my career would have been different' and sometimes when you don't have, you miss that opportunity.