Christy Turlington Quotes

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.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Having children really changes your priorities.

When you become a parent, obviously it changes your life in so many ways.

I'm only speaking for myself, but having a kid has put everything else in my life in perspective.

The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?

Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

I never get to go to movies, because I'm a mom.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, 'I don't care! I've got kids!'

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

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.

Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.

You have kids and everything changes, and I guess before I had my kids I could do what I wanted and go where I wanted.

Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.

When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.

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.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!