This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certa…

- Patricia Heaton

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

- Patricia Heaton

I find it impossible to subscribe to a philosophy that believes that the destruction of human life is a legitimate solution to a problem that is most…

- Patricia Heaton

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

- Patricia Heaton

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

- Patricia Heaton

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

- Patricia Heaton

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise…

- Patricia Heaton

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

- Patricia Heaton

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

- Patricia Heaton