Maeve Binchy Quotes

I've got eight children, 10 grandkids. I have friends over all the time, and I like to cook.

I live with four of my best friends - with my brother and three of my best friends - and we have a lot of fun; there's a really tight bunch of us in London.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.

I have a daughter and a family.

I would love 100 more children!

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

I tend to spend money on holidays for my family.

I got four kids.

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

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just that I don't often go there unless I'm doing press. The one thing I have discovered about LA with kids is that it's really great for children. They really like the sun and making sand castles.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

Looking after children is one of the ways of looking after yourself.

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. - Arya

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.

Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.