Having children Quotes

I personally don't resent having my children.

— Essie Davis

Having a dog is my favorite way to avoid the responsibility of having children.

— Anonymous

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.

— William Poundstone

I love you like octo-mom loves having children.

— Anonymous

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

— Katherine Heigl

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

“no one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.”

— Marcel Theroux

I loved having children and started relatively late.

— Kate Garraway

“Quite simply. "What's the point of having children if you can't be bothered with them?”

— Brenda Ashford

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

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

— Jeanette MacDonald

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be…

— Claire Messud

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want…

— Jane Fallon

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

— Judy Carter

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

— Louis Kronenberger

While childless couples are constantly asked, 'Why they are not having children,' my husband and I are bombarded with a different set…

— Mercedes Schlapp

I personally didn't subscribe to drastically changing our lives as a result of having children. Our children are our world, but I…

— Elizabeth Chambers

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel…

— Mark Strong

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she…

— Natalie Merchant

Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are…

— Walter E. Williams

There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn…

— Morrie Schwartz

“Narcissists expect you to be fit and healthy because the very reason for having children was so that they would be their…

— Diana Macey

Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my…

— Hayden Panettiere

How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF…

— Elton John

Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you…

— Ann Coulter

My mum was an actor until she started having children. I was the first child, so in a way I was the…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

One of the things, and the most exciting, actually definitely the most exciting thing is, having children. You know, I didn't have…

— Leroy Chiao

All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always…

— Alison Gopnik

“Today women live long into their children's adult lives . . . too little is made of the pleasure we women feel…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look,…

— Anna Holmes

I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they…

— Marco Rubio

“I say I don’t want children, people act as if I slapped my mother. I don’t want to have children. I just…

— Mishka Shubaly

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

— Alan Titchmarsh

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

— Dora Russell

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

— Monica Denise Brown

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

— Ron Reagan

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

— Jo Brand

Simply having children does not make mothers.

— Anonymous

When it comes to population control I'm doing my part by not having children.

— Anonymous