Helen Skelton Quotes

I knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.

Having children really changes your priorities.

I've got a family now, which matures you.

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

What's interesting is often people think life changes when you have a record deal and you do all kinds of stuff. Obviously your life changes, but nothing changes your life like getting married and having kids.

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

Fatherhood has changed my whole life.

People change naturally when they have children.

One thing about having children is that even as it complicates many aspects of your life, it simplifies others.

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.