Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Midnight Riot

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

Little Failure

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves and it is rather tedious for children to have to explain things to them time and again.

The Little Prince

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

Midnight's Children

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Stello

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

A Passage to India

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

Brewster Kahle

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

Graydon Carter

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

Kiri Te Kanawa

When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.

Kenny Loggins

I have two children. I gave up a lot for my career, but I'm very happy for it. I've done what I've always thought was best for me and my family.

Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Lillian Gordy Carter

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

John Sergeant Wise

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

Norman Macleod

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Nelly Sachs

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Penelope Lively

[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

Plato

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

Penelope Spheeris

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Pierre Salinger

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

Panayiotis Zavos

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Rita Dove