Quotes About Parenthood

No woman wants an abortion. Either she wants a child or she wishes to avoid pregnancy.

pWhen your parents pass away, you have no home at all - only your children do.

When your parents pass away, you have no home at all - only your children do.

I think . . . you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs. "I'm too young, Dad." "It's the most important thing . . . I've done in . . . my life.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

Twenty Inches and Eight pounds of infant can, and undoubtedly sometimes will, reduce two or more intelligent, competent, organized adults to anxious, exhausted incompetent jellies.

She saw the shadows of her children, young again, playing on that tree. And now to be here with him. You cross your own path.

It's said that the only immortality a man can achieve is through his children. I understand that now.)

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several small items made her cry: a tiny woollen bootie, a broken orthodontic retainer, a woggle from a cub-scout tie. She had not become Malcolm X's private secretary. She never did direct a movie or run for the Senate. She could not fly a plane. But here was all this.

I could never, ever have an abortion.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.