Jeanne Calment Quotes

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

I never planned on having children, that's never been a desire of mine.

I want to have money so I can spend it having children. I want to have three or four and be a really good mother and make sure they have a really brilliant life with parents who are not struggling.

When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

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.

Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.

I definitely don't want to have kids ... I don't think I'd be a great mother. I'm a great aunt or friend of a mother ... I don't want to spend that kind of time. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have time to raise a child.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

I definitely don't have any desire to have children.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I raised four kids in six years.

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.