Shirley Chisholm Quotes

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.

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

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.

For the first time in my life, I want the right to get married. I've met somebody who meets the criteria of what I've always imagined in and wanted from a partner - someone to marry and to bring children into the world with.

We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anemic.

The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

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

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.

I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.

Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children.

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.