Tim Harford Quotes

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

I have six children.

I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

I would like to have three or four kids.

I would just like to have children. Lots of children.

I might get some more animals or something, but I'm done with the kids. I got a boy, I got a girl, and I got an older boy. I'm straight.

I'd love to have a child. Either one or 40. I love kids.

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.

I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.

The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. So it would have had more disadvantages than advantages for them.

I'm living a life. I have nine children.

I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.

Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!

We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.