Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

I don't want to hurt anybody.

Let our children be taught love love love.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

I have very little patience with children.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration for others, and peace of mind. Instead, I'm a fury of annoyance.

I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

My father loved people, children and pets.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

One thing I learned about Jean-Marc is that he's very good with kids. He's very nice to the kids, especially.

When I tell a child something the first time, I'm nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.

I do not care what you do, and that is hard for you to hear. Yet do you care what your children do when you send them out to play? Is it a matter of consequence to you whether they play tag, or hide and seek, or pretend? No, it is not, because you know they are perfectly safe. You have placed them in an environment which you consider friendly and very okay.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.