Quotes About Children

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

Respect your kids. They are their own people. I think sometimes we expect kids to be perfect when we're not perfect.

I don't think there's any doubt, I love my kids. But I'm certainly not perfect, not even close. But I try to be a good dad.

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

Something that really helps when it comes to writing songs is you start to notice how children learn and how we all had to learn in the first place, starting from the ground up. It gives you a new perspective.

We all want our children to be the best they can be; and one of the blessings of having an autistic child is that you notice every little achievement, and it becomes cause for celebration.

One thing I have noticed about having kids, is all you do is worry about them. Worry how they're going to do in life, worry how they're getting on at school, worried when they fall over, worried when they get a cut, you just worry about them in general.

I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.

It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them.

I noticed when most celebrities pass, they really don't have nothing set up for their children.

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to literature - terrifies me. But you could do worse than Mary Norton's 'The Borrowers.' I loved it as a kid, and my kids love it, too.

I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.