“I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.” WantChildrenTwoKidsAbleGrowsEnjoyMy OwnLove IsWatchesGrowing UpCartoonFabulousAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Amy Poehler
“I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.” ChildrenIdeasDoneWholeSeemsFunMy Own Author:Katherine Heigl
“I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.” ChildrenRealFeelingsHomeKidsSchoolTogetherMy OwnStrangeGrewBlessingLuckyGrew UpPeculiarFloridaGiftedWeirdo Author:Ransom Riggs
“To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.” WorldChildrenSchoolValuesParentChurchMy OwnCatholicSafetyInstitutionsDecentHave FaithCatholic SchoolGood In The World Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.” PeopleKnowsChildrenSufferingCultureGivenParentMy OwnDutyDeserveTreatedAfrican AmericanGrandparentHonoredAmerican CultureVery DeepParents And GrandparentsAfrican American Culture Author:Alice Walker
“I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.” ChildrenBookIdeasSometimesStoriesKidsMy OwnTelling Stories Author:Robert Munsch
“I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.” ThinkingChildrenI CanKidsWishParentCan DoMy OwnCitiesNew YorkRaisesRaisedNew York CityManhattan Author:Woody Allen
“If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenI CanEnoughFactsUseHappensLyingMy OwnPureNotionGuitarCaringSillyFulfillmentGenerousAbandonSelflessChild Of GodUsing MeCaring Enough Author:John McLaughlin
“I am crazy about my own films. The films I've just made I'm crazy about them. But then I don't see them for many years. It's like when you get a new child you're very crazy about this child but then after a few years you're like, "what was its name again?"” YearsChildrenMadeFilmNamesMy OwnCrazyI Am Crazy Author:Lars von Trier
“I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.” IfsThinkingWantChildrenWantedFeltMy OwnCircumstances Author:Kristen Stewart
“The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?” WorldChildrenHomeCultureMy OwnWhitePayCarConcernedPsychologicalMy ChildrenImmigrantsPlaces In The WorldNew HomeNew Car Author:James Hillman
“I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.” ChildrenBookMy OwnDealsChildren's Books Author:Michael Ian Black
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.” KnowsWritingFirstsChildrenBookWould BeMy OwnRoomsFictionDoorsPrivacyFragile Author:Marge Piercy
“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.” WantMindChildrenWantedSchoolFunMy OwnOne ThingPaintingFameFinishedLive LifeHaving FunMy Time Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi