When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
David Beckham

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

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
P. J. O'Rourke

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
Meryl Streep

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
Meryl Streep

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Meryl Streep

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Meryl Streep

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Meryl Streep

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero