Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

I love my life. I'm really grateful. My biggest dream come true is my daughter. I've wanted her since I was a little girl.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.

I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I definitely want to have kids. Whether I have a man in my life or not.

I look back in retrospect, and I would never say I regret not one of my children. They are why I live.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink.

Nothing is more precious than your baby.

Back when I was younger, I would have no fear climbing a ladder. I couldn't wait to get to the top just so I could jump off. Now I am married and raising my two daughters, and I'm not a kid in the WWE any more. People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

Your children get only one childhood.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.