Quotes About Parenthood

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

When you have a kid, money matters.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do