Quotes About Parenthood

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights shorter, bank balance smaller, home happier, clothes dirty, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

no one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.

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.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

It was a street of conformity; where identical houses were painted at the same time every spring, a place of rules where gardens, parenthood and the future were planned with equal care, and even if everything went wrong the master plan remained in effect–keep up appearances, clip the hedges, mow the lawn, so that no one will suspect that there's a third mortgage and that Mother's headaches are caused by martinis not migraine.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

marvelled that you could live with a man for years and bear his children, yet remain quite remote from him.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?