Sarah Rafferty Quotes

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.

I have four daughters, with the two youngest being four years old and a year and a half. When one of my older daughters was in sixth grade, a classmate brought in their talking Winnie the Pooh doll for show and tell, so the next week my daughter one upped her classmates and brought me to school in for show and tell.

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 would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

I'm the father of four daughters.

I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

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 really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.