Suzanne Collins Quotes

People with children can never be good revolutionaries.

It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

Nothing is more precious than your baby.

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.

I love children. I'm embarrassingly baby-crazy.

I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.

I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.

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

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

It goes without saying that the first few months after my son was born were the toughest of my life.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

I'm the mother of four.

At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.