Childless Couple Quotes

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

My grandparents had 15 children, my parents had 2 children and I won't be having any child.

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

My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

I have my animals, we have the greatest life and I don't see us having children - never say never - but I really don't see it.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

I don't have children, and I don't want children.

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.

Not having children isn't something I regret. I acknowledge that some things have been easier for me than they would have been for others.

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.

We decided we would have more animals before we would ever have a human baby.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.