Chris de Burgh Quotes

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

I have to have another child. I have to bring someone into this world that will be here for Dashiell.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

The drive to be a parent is strong. It's one of the most ingrained human traits there is.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.

It hit me really hard that I want kids in my life.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

One day I would love to have a couple children.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

I personally want to have children. I love children, and I simply can't wait to have a family of my own.

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children.