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A misbehaving child, is a discouraged child -- Rudolf Dreikurs
Simply having children does not make mothers. -- John G. Shedd
I think having children is the most amazing thing. -- Rachel Stevens
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
I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children. -- Monica Denise Brown
The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me. -- Valeria Lukyanova
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
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. -- Dora Russell
I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children. -- Eve Best
If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development. -- Tom Golisano
Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle. -- Peter Lynch
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. -- Anthony Edwards
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. -- David Lodge
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. -- David Beckham
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
One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. -- Susan Orlean
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
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
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children. -- Robert K. Massie
I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. -- Johann Hari
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
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
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
Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle. -- Sarah McLachlan
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
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. Its not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much. -- Jessica Raine
Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword. -- Calista Flockhart
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much. -- Jessica Raine
Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets. -- Miranda Richardson
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
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I. -- Eydie Gorme
[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
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
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe. -- Krista Tippett
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 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
When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads. -- Kelly Jones
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
Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff. -- Helen McCrory
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
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
In my late teens and early twenties, I thought having children was possibly the most irresponsible thing you could do because I thought that the world was a dreadful place; I thought the sooner we all got off the planet, the better. -- Mariella Frostrup
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen. -- Lisa Cholodenko
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
I really like Wisconsin. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. I enjoy the fact that it's not L.A. or New York. And there's some sense of normalcy here - people having children in homes they can somewhat afford to live in. -- Michael Feldman
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent. -- Amanda Donohoe
I don't want to go into a marriage just because of my age - too many people make that mistake. But of course I'd like to be married one day - I dream of having children because I adore kids so, so much. -- Shilpa Shetty
I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female. -- Robert H. Schuller
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent. -- Amanda Donohoe
I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, 'Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer. -- Gloria Steinem
I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself. -- Terry Wogan
In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it. -- Rachel Sklar
Restaurants are like having children: it's 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
In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare. -- Sharon Gless
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They've made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer. -- Julianna Baggott
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
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened. -- Patricia Richardson
Having a child at 55... that's optimism. -- Steve Earle
Child actors don't have great track records. -- Leslie Mann
Child stars have nothing. They have no choice. -- Corey Feldman
I should have died in ambushes a hundred times. -- Sam Childers
Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child. -- Todd Bridges
I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own. -- Meg Cabot
The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child. -- Robert Edwards
I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure. -- Amy Childs
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child. -- Marilyn Monroe
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. -- Alice Walker
I always wanted to have my own boutiques. I'm so passionate about clothing and always have been so business-minded. -- Amy Childs
It was a lot of hard work, but everyone loved my Amy Childs' Collection, so I decided to have a boutique as well as my salon. I love designing my own dresses, and everyone is loving the collection. I can't believe how well the boutique and the clothing online is going. -- Amy Childs
I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach. -- Lee Child
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences. -- Lincoln Child
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. -- Julia Child
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. -- Lee Child
Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake. -- Julia Child
In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired. -- Lee Child
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything. -- Julia Child
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child. -- Julia Child
It must be weird having one child. -- Luke Evans
My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting! -- Katey Sagal
There's no pride in having been a child soldier. -- Emmanuel Jal
There's not a second I regret having a child on my own. -- Bridget Moynahan
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child -- Tracey Ullman
It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child. -- Tracey Ullman
It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child. -- Scott Weiland
Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life. -- Robert Winston
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee. -- David Frost
An advantage of having one child is you always know who did it. -- Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee. -- David Frost
I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it. -- Tori Amos
Having a child is a lifetime commitment, the biggest one you can possibly make. -- Jen Kirkman
I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me. -- Tori Amos
An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together. -- Shinichi Suzuki
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination. -- Fred G. Gosman
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child. -- Tina Brown
Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet -- John Guillebaud
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. -- Bill Cosby
Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice. -- Sophocles
It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child. -- Eckhart Tolle
As a parent with a child with autism, it's been really tough to experience your child having autism. -- Deron Williams
As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism. -- Deron Williams
A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God. -- Elizabeth George
Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time. -- Nicole Appleton
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually -- Kanye West
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo. -- Koren Zailckas
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. -- Jane Goodall
Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for. -- Mariska Hargitay
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice. -- Patti Smith
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that. -- Randy Houser
Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family. -- Annie Lennox
Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. -- H. L. Mencken

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