I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'
I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.
People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
Casares: [to Carlos] The devil's backbone. Children who should never have been born.
Dracula: [about the wolves that are howling] Listen to them: the children of the night. What sweet music they make.
Crown Prince Leopold: And you? Can you even bear children? Are you any use at all?
Waldo Lydecker: I should be sincerely sorry to see my neighbor's children devoured by wolves.
Tangina: Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.
If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.
I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.
Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.
If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'
