Having Children Quotes - Page 3

• Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.

  Jo Brand

  Morning, Children, Get Up

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

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Children, Past, Perspective

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• What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Vanity, Expression

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

  Joan Lunden

  Girl, Children, Men

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• Having children with someone is the real bond.

  Francesca Annis

  Children, Real, Ties

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

  Nastassja Kinski

  Children, Born

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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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• She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parent, Used

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.694, Simon and Schuster

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• The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious fundamentalists, whatever you want to call it is devoted to saying that sex is only moral and okay when it is directed towards having children and occurs in patriarchal marriage, so the children are owned.

  Gloria Steinem

  Religious, Sex, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Sake, Partners

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.55

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• Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness of their beings. They just play and it's completely real for them at the time. As an actor, if we do it well, we make you believe.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Children, Real, Believe

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• I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they are, where they're living. They're not paying taxes, but they're showing up in emergency rooms. They're driving up the cost of auto insurance 'cause they don't have driver's licenses and are getting into accidents. They're having children, which are US citizens. So, I mean, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Mean

  "EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 18, 2013.

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• [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

  Children, Female, Reason

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• Restaurants are like having children: its 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

  Fun, Children, Boys

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• 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

  Mom, Children, Responsibility

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• Having children and raising them will bring new purpose and new life to Heaven. It will not be the end of everything, but the beginning!

  David Berg

  Children, Heaven, New Life

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Achieve

  "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Being happy is not all about love! Love is not everything. Work, friends, and achieving things... your finite thing in life can't be getting married and having children. Like, creating a life for myself that's my own, and my own road? That was always the most important thing for me. Right now, I have a kid and stuff, and it's fantastic to be a mother, but it's not the final thing. You want to stay an individual. You need to stay an individual for your kid, as an example of what a human being should be! You want to stay true to yourself and not become a half a person. That is so, so important.

  Julie Delpy

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

  John August

  Children, Big Fish, Yards

  "Fictional character: Edward Bloom". Big Fish, 2003.

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