Quotes About Parenthood

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

Doctor just told me I can't have kids. I asked for a second opinion. He said, Why? No one's gonna to let you take kids from this hospital.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

I don't know why they say "you have a baby." The baby has you.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

Families with babies, and families without babies are sorry for each other.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I didn't want children because I didn't want them to suffer. I had a dog, which suffered enough. I don't even want a goldfish or a turtle. I have a desert plant in my house that needs a glass of water maybe once a year, which I can deliver.

as far as I can tell, no matter what the circumstances, parenthood is thrust upon a parent. No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say "Oh, my gosh," and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Given the world, given the situation, the question that remains is whether having children is a statement of hope, an insistence on the beauty and meaningfulness and basic worth of being here, or an act of human sacrifice.

But both of us had been radicalized by parenthood. Having children had brought into horribly lurid focus the predatory face of contemporary capitalism.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother

Do your kids a favor - don't have any.

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world