Quotes About Parenthood

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

I won't lie to you about how I feel. The thought of having children who won't die before they are born is powerful. But you should know that the wolf in me doesn't care about such things. He only wants you.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

The young family with a batch of kids is now an endangered species. Only the young rich can afford that "lifestyle," and they are uninterested. With

At the time of the agreement, Arthur had his daughters, Carol and Elizabeth, with Else, and would soon have a son, and then a daughter, with Marietta.

Children are a consolation for everthing - except having children.

children provoke a couple's most frequent arguments: Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

If anyone asked why we decided to start a family when we did, I said, 'Most couples get kittens for their kids to play with; we decided to get a baby for our cats to play with.' That wasn't true, of course, but it was good for a laugh.

To put radically asunder what nature and nature's God joined together in parenthood when he made love procreative, and to disregard the foundation of the covenant of marriage and the covenant of parenthood in the reality that makes for a loving procreation, and to attempt to soar so high above an eminently human parenthood, is inevitably to fall far below - into a vast technological alienation of man.

I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couple hood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources — all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

Shura," she whispered. "I'm going to have a baby." At first she didn't think Alexander heard her, he was mute so long. "You what?" he said in horror. "I'm going to have a baby," she mouthed, her shoulders quaking, her swollen lips quivering.

Qué monstruo bicéfalo se va creando así? Te volvés simétrico con el otro, los metabolismos se sincronizan, funcionás en espejo; un ser binario con un solo deseo. Y el hijo llega para envolver ese abrazo y sellarlos con un lazo eterno. Es pura asfixia la idea.

A "healthy" woman had children; a "happy" and "fulfilled" woman was a mother.

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

Lady Beckenham snorted and said there was nothing on God's earth as unrewarding as the human baby.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

This could be one reason I've never burdened my life with children—I've thought too much about why people lose the courage to look each other in the eye.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”