Quotes About Parenthood

I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.

I've never been particularly maternal.

I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

I was always meant to be a mom. As soon as I had my kids, it just felt so natural.

My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that can't pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.

I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

I want to be a mom. It's something that when I do have kids, I think I will retire from making music for a while.

Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.

I'd love to get back in the ring so my son could see me, but that's it.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

I am really good at saving my money... I want, like, 100 kids, so I'm going to have to save a lot of money for that.

How happy am I on a scale of one to 10? When you have a daughter, it's 10 out of 10. It doesn't matter what happens. The joy that I get from that, I try to give it to my football.

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

My two boys have each done a play. They've done school plays as well, but one of them did a local production of 'Waiting For Godot,' and he played the boy.

I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

I took a good one year off before and after Haroon's birth, so from the beginning I have been right into it. For me, it was quite seamless.

I don't want a little Oliver/Olivia parasite running about eating my biscuits. My friends, on the other hand, are procreating like humanity depends on it, and it doesn't.

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.