Quotes About Children

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave me, such as love and friendship.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

I was never much of a kid person. I mean, I thought they were cute to look at, but I didn't want them in my house.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.