Randy Newman Quotes

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

I'll always have this thought of maybe adopting a child for the third one.

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

I'm already a stepdad but, of course, I'd like to have kids.

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

One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.

Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Rules rooting in sweeping moral judgment don’t generally work in family law for the same reason that they don’t work for families. Kids love and need the parents they have, not necessarily the parents we love.

Orphans Preferred

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

I'm more eager to have kids than I am to go back to college. I want to be a mom really badly.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

For a couple that wants to have a child, there's the option of IVF, but then have a look at adoption as well.

Of course, deciding whether or not to have children is a personal decision, but I would encourage couples to stay open to the idea that having a child or adopting provides both personal and societal benefits.

I have said to myself that if I don't find the right person, I think I would probably adopt on my own, because I think I would be a great dad.

It's a difficult world, and you shouldn't have kids unless you really want them.

Since day one I've always wanted kids.

If I'm not blessed with children of my own then I'd like to adopt one day - possibly a child from Pakistan.