Kelly Cutrone Quotes

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

I never spend more than a week away from the children.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

A mother plays a very important role in every child's life.

I understand that for an average working mother it is difficult to take out lots of time for their child. But make sure that when you are with them, you cuddle them and listen when they share their day to day activities.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.