Quotes About Children

I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I remember when I was working on All Alone in the Universe, and Robin Roy was my editor. When I first sent it to her, she said kids this age don't want pictures in their books.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.

I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.

Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.