Quotes About Parenthood

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

En Bram was zijn zoon. Juist omdat hij het niet was - van je eigen zoon zou je verplicht zijn te houden, waardoor je altijd moest twijfelen of je het wel echt deed; van Bram hield hij omdat het Bram was.

far from being a reason not to travel and seek adventure, children are perhaps the best reason of all to do both.

Often in our blindness, we take on our problems as identities. While divorce, depression, and single parenthood are significant human experiences, they are not identities. Our work is not our identity, though it is an important part of how God intends us to live. For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

For a woman the worst thing about a sperm bank is that sperm is no longer free. Just go into a bar, and a sperm container will try to pick you up.

We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic.

It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'

The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way.

I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

One day I would love to have a couple children.

I've been married one time and I have one daughter, who I love more than anyone in the world. And that's where my world is.

No parents deserve to see their only child die.

I had Noelle when I was 32 years old, and she is my only child by birth.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

The emergence of a child opens up this well of love that you just never knew you were able to have. And it's empowering.

Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.

I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.

Don't, Lily. I will not be able to stop myself. I forced the burden of bearing a child on you once before. I will never do so again. There must be time for you to grow strong. We do not need to have more children. I would not see you suffer through that pain again. Lily glared at him. I am strong, Cade. I am strong and I am not afraid of bearing your children. And I need you in the same way that you need me and you will drive us both mad if you deny it. She