Katie Kitamura Quotes

Having children changes your outlook 100 percent of your life.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

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.

Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

Having children really changes your priorities.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Being married is one thing, but having kids will completely change you. I still go out and hang with my buddies, but having two daughters will completely change your perspective on the world.

When you become a father, everything changes.

For me having kids, it doesn't clip your wings, it gives you a different type of adventure to take, like you say you've got different priorities.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs there is. It's one of the greatest things, too, but it's also probably the hardest thing anybody ever does.