Having Children Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Children, Privilege, Ifs

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• There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

  Anthony Edwards

  Baby, Children, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Dad, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Children, Discouraged, Misbehaving

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

  Gary L. Thomas

  Children, Trust In God

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

  Elle Macpherson

  Thank You, Children, Focus

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• 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.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mother, Children, Selfish

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• About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

  Judy Carter

  Single, Children, Thinking

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• 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.

  Jill Hennessy

  Children, Writing, Parent

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• 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

  Sex, Children, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Rude

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2007.

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

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Kids, Custody

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

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Snow, Joy

  "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.

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

  Jeanne Calment

  Children, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely that many people will stop having children. By contrast, it is quite likely that my views either will be ignored or will be dismissed. As this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, it cannot plausibly be thought of as philanthropic. That is not to say that it is motivated by any malice towards humans, but it does result from a self-deceptive indifference to the harm of coming into existence.

  David Benatar

  Children, Heart, Self

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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• There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Responsibility, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.93, Broadway Books

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Race

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

  Melissa Etheridge

  Children, Reality, Careers

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• Having children with someone is the real bond.

  Francesca Annis

  Children, Real, Ties

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• 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.

  Elton John

  Children, Hate, Cry

  "Elton John's incredible life: Rock icon on fatherhood, fame, addiction and his brush with death". Interview with Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. September 13, 2013.

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• To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

  William Cobbett

  Children, Men, Support

  William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, Anne Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1835). “Selections from Cobbett's Political Works: Being a Complete Abridgement of the 100 Volumes which Comprise the Writings of "Porcupine" and the "Weekly Political Register." With Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.400

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

  Dora Russell

  Children, Women, Memorable

  Hypatia ch. 4 (1925)

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• One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

  Martin Amis

  Children, Father, Selfishness

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• 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

  Life, Children, Long

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• Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Jobs, Children

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