Quotes About Parenthood

You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've been there for that nine month period, you realize that there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes. There's no doubt. Any man who had to carry a child for nine months would cave in about month or two. And then delivery, you know labor? Yeah, it's over with. So yeah, I would certainly like to explore that. Sure.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved, when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Even in nonindustrialized societies, girls do not start having children the moment they reach menarche; the average age worldwide for a first baby is nineteen, according to a 2008 article in Science.

que se te muera un hijo es alegría. Y creo —ahora, sin más dudas, creo— que todo lo que pueda decir sobre la esclavitud es redundante.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The next challenge was how to give it to her. Should he just put it in the spare bedroom, take her by the hand, and when she spotted the cradle in the middle of the room say, "What do you think about a baby?" Did that sound ridiculous? Did he care?

They did it because for all the pain and heartache children brought, they gave back equal amounts of pure, limitless joy.

I'm a one-hour mama, so no one-minute papa. Ain't the kind of man for me.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for

I love you, Cassie Dawson. I love you and I love our little..." With a sudden start, Red remembered something vital. A tiny spurt of fear flashed in Cassie's eyes. "What is it?" Red said, chagrined, "I just realized I don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl.

My mother was beautiful but so very young. Too young to have me, but she did, and she loved me.

The only time a women wishes she was a year older is when she's expecting a baby.

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do not wish to untie.

J'avais connu la joie "longue focale" de la projection. La grande aventure d'une certaine normalité. L'ordre des choses. Les plans de chimie amusante, celle qui changeait les rêves d'enfant en rêves d'avoir des enfant

You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail.

Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know if that was enough.

Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

Daughters," he says. "You raise them and watch them grow up, and you love them so much it makes you crazy. Then one day some guy shows up. Maybe he's nice. Maybe he's got a good job. Maybe he's got his shirt tucked in and he calls you sir. But he's never quite what you're hoping for. If you have one someday—a daughter, I mean—you'll know what I'm talking about.

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.

The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.