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I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.