Richelle Mead Quotes

I have very little patience with children.

I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

My mom, my dad, my two brothers - we're all animal lovers. I think we love animals more than most people.

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

Ooh..I want one" - Bex They're not puppies." -Cammie

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals.

I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

I am only as good as my children are.

To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have caused or facilitated as part of the institution of 'pet' ownership. But I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.