I want at least five kids. I want twins.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

I want a baby from an Italian – possibly Sicilian – donor.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Children make your life important.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

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.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.