Thomas McGuane Quotes

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

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.

I don't have any kids of my own.

I have chosen not to have children.

I always knew I wanted to have children of my own. I met my husband Daniel when I was 23; we were married when I was pregnant with my first child, Ossian. We've had our ups and downs like every couple, especially when we were younger.

I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.

I didn't have any children of my own.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

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.

People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.

I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.

There are couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage. Of course it is true, that's exactly what a child does but it's not something to be feared, it's to be embraced.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.