Charles Barkley Quotes

I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.

I feel I'm fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it's expensive. When we've looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it's just been impossible. You just cannot get one.

Kids don't come cheap.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.

When you have children, you can't say you're not interested in money.

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

We make it harder to raise kids than just about any other country.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.