Patricia Heaton Quotes

My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?

I got four kids.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

I cannot live without children.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.