Top 100 Having A Child Quotes
#1. It was almost like being a child again because you felt like you were in your bedroom and it almost felt like no one was really watching you. So, you were just kind of having a bit of fun on your own doing silly voices in the bedroom.
Ashley Jensen
#3. Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
Paul Graham
#4. As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism.
Deron Williams
#5. In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.
Lee Child
#6. I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#7. The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding, so it makes me more motivated. It's like my mother said about having an artistic child - she learned more from him and he gets more attention and more of the love, not less.
Wynton Marsalis
#8. My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.
Heather Wolf
#9. Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.
V.S. Carnes
#10. The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.
Robert Edwards
#11. Parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.
Sheryl Sandberg
#12. You need to wait until you are worthy of having a child of your own.' She pats her hair down, which is rock hard. Her action is pointless, but she's worried about appearances as usual. 'And someone like you who's responsible for killing my babies - your own siblings - is not worthy.
Rebecca Berto
#13. I couldn't imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn't imagine having a child to leave.
V.T. Davy
#14. It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.
Mike Birbiglia
#15. Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.
P. J. O'Rourke
#16. Each hour is a room of shame, and I am
swimming, swimming, holding my head up,
smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed,
like being naked with the clothed, or being
a child, having to try to behave
while hating the terms of your life.
Sharon Olds
#17. I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.
Terry Jones
#18. So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Robert Sternberg
#19. There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie
#20. I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.
Robert Carlyle
#21. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.
Jonas Gahr Store
#22. He's worth having. All I got was two fake lawsuits." "Seems like Morgan's value just went down, as part of a credible
Lee Child
#23. We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.
Jon Porter
#24. I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
Gracie Gold
#25. Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.
Ciara
#26. Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#27. Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#28. And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
Gerald Scarfe
#29. The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
Larry Elder
#30. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.
Liane Moriarty
#31. I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.
Corin Tucker
#32. A schoolchild should be taught grammar
for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.
E.B. White
#33. It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.
Elizabeth McCracken
#34. It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.
Tracey Ullman
#35. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death
Carsten Jensen
#36. As a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret of all happiness.
Anonymous
#37. Drew Barrymore's Guess shoot took place as she was making the transition to serious actress after having been more known as a child actress who had become overwhelmed by the Hollywood lifestyle.
Paul Marciano
#38. Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby
#39. I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'
Gina Bellman
#40. As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood.
("The Queen Fantasque")
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#41. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.
Anthony Liccione
#42. I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#43. It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.
David Thewlis
#44. The best part of being a little child is having a long blank page ahead that he can fill it with almost everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
Asia Argento
#46. I've learned ... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
Andy Rooney
#47. Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.
Kenneth Oppel
#48. I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
Tori Amos
#49. Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war ... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge ... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.
Carol Bellamy
#50. But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?
Ramez Naam
#51. Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.
Wynton Marsalis
#52. I'm not just considered a former child star. I'm not considered a black actress. I'm not considered an actress. I've done roles that were written for men. First and foremost is God: I definitely believe in Him having kind of mapped out what my destiny was going to be.
Kim Fields
#53. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.
Aysha Taryam
#54. He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, the original one having been shot away.
Cormac McCarthy
#55. I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe and doubt for all else.
Meia Geddes
#56. Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
Gregory Benford
#57. Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals
Min Jin Lee
#58. I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.
David Bowie
#59. Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.
Kim Fields
#60. Suffering pain is what made you a woman. Most of the milestones in a woman's life were accompanied by pain, like her first time having sex or birthing a child. For men, it was all orgasms and champagne.
Brit Bennett
#61. In my late 30s, I flirted with the idea of having a child without necessarily being in a steady relationship. But I've never had a strong maternal urge, and then I got cancer of the womb - luckily caught at an early stage - so that put paid to that.
Kiki Dee
#62. You are an incredible child of God having a dream that you are a human being on a tiny planet in the middle of nowhere.
Drunvalo Melchizedek
#63. The way I enjoyed spending time most was dancing. That's from the time I was a very small child, When I was 4 or 5 years old, I remember already having a regime. It was the way I always identified myself.
Twyla Tharp
#64. Discipline is helping a child solve a Problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solution not retribution.
L.R. Knost
#65. Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet
John Guillebaud
#66. Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him.
Neymar
#67. I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.
John Lennon
#68. A man with no children can easily be lulled into a sense that time is standing still. It's not. It's marching past us, relentlessly. Having a child growing and changing before your eyes makes this unavoidably clear.
Jonathan V. Last
#69. I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?
Sy Montgomery
#70. It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
Sam Harris
#71. But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
Debra Winger
#72. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Kris Kristofferson
#73. I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age.
Alexis Stewart
#74. I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.
Garry Shandling
#75. It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns.
I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded.
Ariana Carruth
#76. Where do you white women get the idea that having a child makes one weak and unable to do one's own work?
Janette Oke
#77. Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.
Mini Grey
#78. One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.
Catherine Sanderson
#79. Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
H.L. Mencken
#80. The service had reminded her of the meaning of Christmas and given her a sense of peace. It had also reminded her of the baby she carried and the hope that having a child brought into her life. Did the past really matter? Not if she didn't let it, she decided.
Brenda Novak
#81. It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.
Eckhart Tolle
#82. The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer
#83. A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future
David Mas Masumoto
#84. Having a record of well-child visits also protects parents, especially those who choose to follow an alternative lifestyle, from being accused of medical neglect. An ongoing record showing regular well-child visits goes a long way to negate such accusations, supposing they are ever made.
Anonymous
#85. You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.
Tony Robbins
#86. I feel things more deeply ... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life ... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.
Ben Affleck
#87. He wondered if his own child would like to
have a dog, then shook off the thought. He was years
away from having a child. He needed a wife first - and
obtaining her would be far more trouble than obtaining
a mistress. Here, he had yet to get a mistress.
Lorraine Heath
#88. Having a child is the best thing that could happen.
Pink
#89. Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.
Stephen King
#90. No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.
Graeme Smith
#91. Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.
Stuart Duncan
#92. But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.
Stevie Nicks
#93. Every need brings what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
And the marvelous answer appears.
Rumi
#94. Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.
Christina Aguilera
#95. Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
Imelda Staunton
#96. When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.
Neil Gaiman
#97. I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.
Anna Quindlen
#98. For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
Kate Bush
#99. I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
Meg Cabot
#100. Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.
Judi Dench
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