Bill Ayers Quotes

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

Once you have a small child who depends on you for every little thing, you're responsible for him. It's a huge responsibility. For me, it makes me into a more responsible person.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

Having a family, taking care of your kids and people outside yourself, maybe it's motivated me more to give that extra something.

Having small children, you start thinking about how everything in your life revolves around doing the best you can for this little being, trying to make a good life for that person.

We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

Being a mom has affected me in the greatest way possible - and in a necessary way. Having my son has helped me to be grounded, and I feel like with a child you have to really think about things all the way through.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.