Quotes About Parenthood

By the time I was a teenager I'd decided what my son's name would be - River.

I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

I've never wanted a baby. I've always wanted a cat.

There's this culture where we celebrate people snapping back into shape a week after the birth, but I don't want to be one of those people - I just want to enjoy Arabella.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

I spend time with my little baby and my wife. We like the water place at the Trafford Centre.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

We're excited to have kids. I think Linda and I will be great parents, and we're excited to start that chapter of our lives.

Charlie and I were never blessed with children.

I'm always amazed... I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like 'Oh here we go, Dad,' because they had been looking. They were like, 'You're the guy, aren't you?' And I said, 'Well, maybe.' They said, 'He is, he's the guy on 'Charmed!'

Kids don't come cheap.

When you have a child, the happiness that it will give you cannot be matched by any number of zeroes on a cheque.

Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.

I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.

I have chosen not to have children.

One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.