Quotes About Parenthood

Kids are wonderful, even when they're not.

In my opinion, the goal of parenthood is to teach your kid how to explore the world and find himself or herself in it; this naturally requires that the focus is on the kid, and not the parent. The parent who is leaping in and mud-wrestling a teacher over a "B" or bribing the local daycare center staff to get their kid in is probably not focused on what the kid needs so much as what the parent thinks he needs to prove.

Your sons have no names." Adam replied, "Their mother left them motherless." "And you have left them fatherless. Can't you feel the cold at night of a lone child? What warm is there, what bird song, what possible morning can be good? Don't you remember, Adam, how it was, even a little?" "I didn't do it," Adam said. "Have you undone it? Your boys have no names.

Mordeen, he said, I love the child. His voice swelled and he spoke loudly. Mordeen, I love our child. And he raised his head and cried in triumph, Mordeen, I love my son.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.

Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.