"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

"The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored."

"Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will."

"Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued."

"Noble fathers have noble children."

"I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way."

"I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both."

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"Children need models rather than critics."

"Children need models more than they need critics"

"Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back."

"Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?"

"There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters."

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

"Nobody went to bed at seven in Paris, even French children. Les enfants stayed up late at night, he had heard, eating with the adults, sipping red wine, and discussing the latest books and films."

"Children are the anchors of a mother's life."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."

"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

If you have children who love and respect you, this too can be a sign of your success. 

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.