Quotes About Parenthood

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Yes, I think it's helping. Ugh. You had better pray for a boy, Westcliff, because this is your only chance at an heir. I'm never going through this again—" "Open your mouth," he said, and fed her more flavored ice.

But... the truth is... I want you to have my baby. I didn't know how much, until the thought that I would never have the opportunity. I thought-" He broke off, a self-mocking smile touching his lips. "Damn it. I dont know how to be a husband, or a father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have a half a change at pleasing you." He grinned at her mock frown.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

His son. That funny creature that looked like a skinned rabbit was his son.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.

Oh, by the way, Mom, I've been meaning to ask. I don't suppose you married a merman, had his child, and then never saw him again? OR THOUGHT TO TELL YOUR DAUGHTER ABOUT IT? HUH???

We were not sure how to receive them, even though they were our boys.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

The whole birth thing though," Elle said. "It just seems like a poor exit strategy, doesn't it?

Once she was born, I was never not afraid.

Parents don't get to call in and take a day off. As always, the sight of her filled me with such an unbearable ache of love that it nearly knocked me to my knees. How could one small person have become my entire existence? I couldn't even imagine life without her. She was the sum total of my reason for living. Picking

To her amazement, the baby, even at this stage, was a fact, and not a choice of any kind. She

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you've already lived.

Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the front lines. All you wanted to do was tuck it away, safe from natural disasters and violence and prejudice and sarcasm, but that was not an option. You lived in daily fear of watching it burst, of breaking it yourself. Somehow you knew that if it disappeared, you would, too.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever.

If I want to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I'll put shoes on my cat.