Connie Stevens Quotes

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

My children come first, and always will.

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

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.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

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

My kids come first on all measures.

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.

Everything I do is for my children.

I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

Having small children, you start thinking about how everything in your life revolves around doing the best you can for this little being, trying to make a good life for that person.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

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

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Obviously, my daughter's my priority, so if you want to have plans with me and then my daughter calls, then I'm going to have to go with her.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.