Mamie Gummer Quotes

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

I love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.

I'm just excited to watch my kids grow up.

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months, so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.' He was just being a kid. But I had to allow him to have that moment.

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

I really like kids.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

I do want to have kids. Every time I see a little kid, I get excited, and I want to spend time with them.

I love children.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.