Quotes About Parenthood

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

Children make your lives a mess and set your priorities straight.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.