My Children Come First Quotes

#1. My children come first and the career comes in around that.

Diana Ross

#2. In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

Cindy McCain

#3. Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

Michael Jackson

#4. The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

Bob Riley

#5. I spent my whole life wantin' to take care of children. You a blessing, not a burden." She looked at me hard. "Don't you go forgettin' that." She patted my shoulder and left me alone. As I fell asleep, it come to me that that was the first time anybody had ever told me I was a blessing.

Susan Crandall

#6. Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

Meg Tilly

#7. They never want to go to bed. This is another thing that I will never have in common with my children. Every morning when I wake up, my first thought is, When can I come back here?

Jim Gaffigan

#8. [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Libby Houston

#9. With improved coping skills forged through my midlife crisis, I now listen first and do not control, and I allow these now adult children to come to their own conclusions about what they want for their lives.

David W. Earle

#10. I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

Carol Shields

#11. It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.

Randy Alcorn

#13. What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Malorie Blackman

#14. Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#15. I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.

Mal Peet

#16. I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

Eric Bana

#17. The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time. Even before they speak, children are extremely sensitive to the messages adults send them.

Hillary Clinton

#18. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Kate Middleton

#19. Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

Ogden Nash

#20. The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

Flora Thompson

#21. People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben."

Jim Gaffigan