James Redfield Quotes

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

We all want to raise our children well.

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

I am glad that I do not have any children.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Yes, it's hard to stay in shape, but it's also hard to raise kids. That doesn't mean you get to drop them off at your local fire station when they get to be a handful.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.