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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. -- Susan Orlean
I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. -- Steve Jobs
Having children really changes your priorities. -- Cindy Crawford
Simply having children does not make mothers. -- John G. Shedd
I think having children is the most amazing thing. -- Rachel Stevens
Having children is what a woman is born for, really. -- Nastassja Kinski
Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry! -- Jeanne Calment
Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house. -- Susan Glaspell
After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better. -- Jaclyn Smith
We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved. -- Ron Reagan
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. -- Peter Lynch
Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning. -- Jo Brand
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. -- Siri Hustvedt
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. -- Anthony Edwards
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. -- Thandie Newton
Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others. -- Ben Shapiro
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. -- David Beckham
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up. -- Ray Romano
The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity. -- Nicolae Ceausescu
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
That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children. -- Rebecca Miller
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
I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. -- Albert Ellis
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
It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing. -- Kelly Masterson
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
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. -- Robert Smith
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. -- Sydney J. Harris
Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later. -- Linda Ronstadt
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
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf. -- Annie Lennox
I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself. -- Rachel Nichols
My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be. -- Gwen Cooper
I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that. -- Tracey Emin
There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children. -- Morrie Schwartz
I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else. -- Ludivine Sagnier
I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children. -- Steven Tyler
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. -- Walter E. Williams
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here. -- Nathan Myhrvold
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well. -- Nancy Gibbs
One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it. -- Howie Mandel
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
The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused. -- Edward Abbey
Abortion is green! I think its irrefutable, but people don't want to hear that. For most people, having children is an instinctual, natural desire and the last thing they want to do is believe that it has any detrimental side, or if they do believe it, they think it's different for them because they live in a gated community or whatever the reason... -- Doug Stanhope
I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'? -- Maya Angelou
Having children with someone is the real bond. -- Francesca Annis
Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children. -- William Poundstone
Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children. -- Rudolf Virchow
Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. -- Barbara Walters
Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once. -- Derek Fisher
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children. -- Monica Denise Brown
Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life -- Alan Titchmarsh
I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children. -- Arizona Muse
The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me. -- Valeria Lukyanova
Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears. -- Kate Winslet
I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. -- Eve Best
The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren. -- Mell Lazarus
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. -- Dora Russell
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth. -- Joan of Arc
About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them. -- Judy Carter
I'm having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past. -- Mal Peet
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career. -- Melissa Etheridge
If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development. -- Tom Golisano
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option -- James Patterson
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted. -- Eartha Kitt
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. -- Dora Russell
I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children. -- Katherine Heigl
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine
I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family. -- Barbara Walters
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent. -- Louis Kronenberger
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. -- Plato
Other people's children's birthday parties are the most joyful events you will ever resent having to attend. -- Jim Gaffigan
The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess. -- Jeanette MacDonald
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?' -- Sharon Stone
I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around. -- Lana Turner
I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun. -- Katherine Heigl
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future. -- Douglas Coupland
I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs! -- Nicole Scherzinger
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children -- Madeleine Bunting
Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House. -- Nancy Pelosi
So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children. -- Saint Augustine
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. -- David Lodge
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. -- Polly Berrien Berends
What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? -- Kate Millett
I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money, -- Nigella Lawson
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. -- Spencer W. Kimball
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I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. -- Alice Walker
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. -- Joan Chen
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. -- Ian Mcewan
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place. -- Eve Best
I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible. -- Jonathon Porritt
Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. -- H. L. Mencken
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
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. -- Martin Amis
I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one. -- Patrick Dempsey
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself. -- Jeff Bridges
Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek. -- Clayton Christensen
We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld. -- John H. McWhorter
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. -- Winston Churchill
She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else. -- Jodi Picoult
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death. -- Ted Nelson
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity. -- Madonna Ciccone
While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. -- Louis C. K.
I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time. -- Stacy Schiff
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up. -- Jayne Mansfield
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up -- Jayne Mansfield
The traditional rules for having children are long gone. Some days I feel like the harder choice is to not have a kid. -- Henriette Mantel
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing. -- Vicki Baum
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. -- Al Sharpton
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! -- Francesca Annis
And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over. -- Zoe Wanamaker
I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex. -- Jack Handey
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. -- Andrew Lincoln

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