Catherine Crier Quotes

I love dogs, but they are a big responsibility, and with four children, having one would be too much.

I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great. All my friends have little brothers or sisters.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.

I love pets, especially dogs.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

There are couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage. Of course it is true, that's exactly what a child does but it's not something to be feared, it's to be embraced.

Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

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.

I remember my mother and father arguing about light bulbs because my father thought he could save money by putting 25-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt bulbs and my mother was trying to explain to him that her children needed to learn to read so that they could go to college. He couldn't see that.

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.

Since I've had children I don't really like horror movies.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.