Top 100 Having Children Quotes
#1. I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
Steven Tyler
#2. Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.
Walter E. Williams
#3. Having children is not something you do if you have time, having children is what God gave you time for.
Neil L. Anderson
#4. Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
Melinda Gates
#5. Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.
Helen McCrory
#6. Never having children is a huge regret of mine.
Frazer Hines
#7. Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Ray Romano
#8. About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.
Judy Carter
#10. The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
Nancy Gibbs
#11. We all are conditioned to be settled down at 30 and have a job. Women are thinking "Well, when am I having children?" There is a biological clock. There are things that you're thinking about as a woman.
Daryl Wein
#12. It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.
Kelly Masterson
#13. We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
Ron Reagan
#14. I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.
Mary Gaitskill
#15. Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
Scott Weiland
#16. You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.
Carew Papritz
#17. Having children doesn't make you a good parent, it means you had sex. That's all.
Dave Ramsey
#18. STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
Douglas Coupland
#19. For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.
Krista Tippett
#20. If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.
Tom Golisano
#21. She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.
Jodi Picoult
#22. It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.
Julianna Baggott
#23. My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
Natalie Merchant
#24. The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.
Jeanette MacDonald
#25. I'm the same weight now as I've always been-even before having children-but I have to say there's been a redistribution of the flesh!
Francesca Annis
#26. When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
David Beckham
#27. Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits.
Walter E. Williams
#28. I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.
Eve Best
#29. After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
Jaclyn Smith
#30. Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.
Thalia
#31. [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.
Gloria Steinem
#32. Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life
Alan Titchmarsh
#33. Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
Jo Brand
#34. Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.
Wolfgang Puck
#35. Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#37. Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#38. Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold
#39. Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.
Sarah McLachlan
#40. Another terrific reason for not having children: it was so disturbing when animals ate them.
Nevada Barr
#41. The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#42. I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.
Tracey Emin
#43. There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
Robert K. Massie
#44. I don't want to go into a marriage just because of my age - too many people make that mistake. But of course I'd like to be married one day - I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much.
Shilpa Shetty
#45. Getting married, having children, and staying together long after all love has died, saying that it's for the good of the children (who are, apparently, deaf to the constant rows).
Paulo Coelho
#46. Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.
David Lodge
#47. I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.
Monica Denise Brown
#49. Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
Andrew Solomon
#50. Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my life. I would sacrifice having more years of being wherever I want whenever I want for years with my kids.
Hayden Panettiere
#51. Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.
Barbara Kingsolver
#52. Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?
Will Ferrell
#53. I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
Jon Hamm
#54. I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Amanda Donohoe
#55. Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.
Madonna Ciccone
#56. I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs
#57. Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
Peter Lynch
#58. It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.
Sarah Ruhl
#59. I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.
Terry Wogan
#60. You're going to figure it out, as you go. I think that's how people feel about having children, as well. You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.
Jess Weixler
#61. I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.
Johann Hari
#62. When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.
Kelly Jones
#63. No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
Jo Brand
#64. If you want to be a good parent please heal your own wounds, heal all of them and be confident that you've done so before you seriously consider having children. The unresolved child within you is the real child you need to embrace and heal and raise.
Daniel Mackler
#65. And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
Bob Geldof
#66. One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
Susan Orlean
#67. I think having children is the most amazing thing.
Rachel Stevens
#68. And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.
Mark Strong
#69. Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
Siri Hustvedt
#70. In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better.
Mariella Frostrup
#71. The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.
Valeria Lukyanova
#72. That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
Rebecca Miller
#73. One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.
Howie Mandel
#74. And as for the risk, there's risks in pretty near everything a body does in this world. There's risks in people's having children of their own if it comes to that--they don't always turn out well.
L.M. Montgomery
#75. Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Abraham Maslow
#76. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
#77. Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.
Rudolf Virchow
#78. Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.
Susan Glaspell
#79. Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#80. The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid.
Henriette Mantel
#81. I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis
#82. When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
Oswald Spengler
#83. The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
Mell Lazarus
#84. Men and women alike have convinced themselves of a dragging belief: that somehow women are incomplete without having children.
Caitlin Moran
#85. There's something nihilistic about not having children
Lionel Shriver
#86. Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.
Linda Ronstadt
#87. There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards
#88. What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.
Whitney Otto
#89. I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
Rachel Johnson
#90. No one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.
Marcel Theroux
#91. Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.
Tess Daly
#92. Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
John Updike
#93. Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.
Cate Blanchett
#94. They're so hateful, the women here. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort. So they're having children all the time - like dogs. It's too revolting.
Aldous Huxley
#95. Children are a consolation for everthing - except having children.
Paul Auster
#96. Indeed, many adults don't consider having children at all until they've deemed themselves good and ready: in 2008, 72 percent of college-educated women between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine had not yet had children.
Jennifer Senior
#97. I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn't about you.
Louise Doughty
#98. I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.
Robert H. Schuller
#99. One of the best things about having children is that it enables you to have the same loving memories as another person - you can summon the same past. Two flashbacks but with a single image.
Allison Pearson
#100. It's just that . . . when you have kids, it just changes things." "Do me a favor, Yates. Please don't give me that having-children-alters-you spiel. I listen to that crap enough from my painfully few friends.
Harlan Coben
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