Family Growth Quotes

My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

I lived across from a Catholic church for 15 years that I never went into. And then I got married to my wife and - you know, and now we're going in there every other day baptizing a kid.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.

My next baby will be my new record.

Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life.

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

I'd do anything to have more kids.

Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things to take time.

We're expanding the brand. Bojana and I are indeed awaiting our second child. We're very excited.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

Not everyone's a perfect parent, but we do learn, and we grow from that. I'm not trying to be harsh on my family because it does make them sad to think back about how they used to be and some of their choices.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.

I want to see my family prosper, see my kids grow old.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

American planters, who, from the early age at which their children marry, have generally the pleasure of seeing in their lifetime their descendants doubling their numbers in the third and fourth generations, have also the solid satisfaction of finding the produce of the world they were peopling increase in equal degree.

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.