It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had.
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.
When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitching in Little League is very important. And the medals and the scouts are really important.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.
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.
My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
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.
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.
The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
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.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Having two children with autism, it makes you really think about how we do relate to each other.
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
