Quotes About Parenthood

Marketing with a small baby was more like a ninety-minute expedition into Darkest Borneo, requiring massive amounts of equipment and tremendous expenditures of energy.

time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is—in the blink of an eye, the mother can see the child again as it was when it was born, when it learned to walk, as it was at any age—at any time, even when the child is fully grown and a parent itself.

I want to protect ye, Sassenach—spread myself over ye like a cloak and shield you and the child wi' my body.

I love being a husband and a father. That aspect of my life has been a joy.

I had 14 failed attempts at having kids.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

If I have my kids, I drive something with four doors. If I don't have my kids, I can drive whatever I want.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

I'm more eager to be a father than a husband, for sure.

My parents gave up on their dreams in sports because they were athletes, and they had me at such an early age. I didn't want to do that.

Our children are Grammers and it's easier to keep the Grammer last name because of them.

I've not had a quiet morning since I had my eldest when I was 17.

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

Oooh! I just felt him kick again!" "Now Juliet, how can you know it's a 'he'?" "I know because I'm not nearly as sick as I was with Charlotte. Boys are easier to carry than girls, you know. Or so they say. Oh!" An excited little squeal. "Put your hand right there, Gareth." "Here?" "Yes, right there — do you feel it?" A tense, expectant silence. And then, "Oh, Juliet . . ." Charles

And then he looked up into her eyes and splayed his fingers over her still-flat belly, his smile one of wonder and awe. "And to think that a life grows within you . . . a child. My child. Our child. . .

Our babies are the roots we dig into the world.

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.

Just when my biological clock started ticking, I found out it was going to be virtually impossible. And it was very hard.