Having Children Quotes

Having Children Quote of the day

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.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

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.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

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.

The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

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.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Having children really changes your priorities.

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

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.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

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!

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Having children has made me incredibly efficient. It's hard to leave them in the mornings, but I'm extremely productive during the day, knowing I want to be fully focused on them when I get home.

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

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.