Quotes About Parenthood

I'm very excited to have a girl.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

I liked that Garrett could be lighthearted and laugh about the future about being a dad and having the minivan.

Before kids, I was really going to the limit. Afterwards, I was approaching the limit but then maybe turning around.

I do want to have kids. Every time I see a little kid, I get excited, and I want to spend time with them.

I'm definitely looking forward to having kids.

My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

Progressives like Margaret Sanger—founder of Planned Parenthood and a role model for Hillary Clinton—supported such causes as eugenics and social Darwinism. While abortion was not an issue in Sanger's day, she backed forced sterilization for "unfit" people, notably minorities. Sanger

And suddenly all the puppies were her puppies; she was their mother—just as Pongo had felt he was their father.

It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.

I asked him if it was scary being a father, and he told me, no, he loved it. He said his life had gotten smaller. His world had shrunk to his wife and his kid, and all that mattered was keeping them safe.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

Kids are life's only guaranteed bona fide upside surprise.

There's no such thing as this baby, this toddler, this little person, because it's quicksilver, there's no such thing as anybody. We shouldn't have children, it's impossible, but if you want children, and you can't have them, then that's its own impossible. It's impossible to lose them, but it happens, it happened to my mother, it's happening all the time.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...

At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

Balancing parenthood with the lifestyle of a professional climber is tricky and it certainly helps to have a supportive partner. For me it has been quite a juggling act to manage all the demands on my time in both my personal and public life. But like climbing itself, the most challenging experiences are usually the most satisfying. Motherhood is certainly more challenging than any climb I've done, but there's nothing greater than the sense of love I feel for my child.

Will you bear my child?" he asked me. I laughed at him. "No, never and never.

i had never thought of having children, but looking at him, for a moment i could imagine it

A week after our daughter Lauren was born, my wife, Bonnie, and I were completely exhausted. Each night Lauren kept waking us. Bonnie had been torn in the delivery and was taking painkillers. She could barely walk. After five days of staying home to help, I went back to work. She seemed to be getting better.