Quotes About Parenthood

When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Being a mother has made my life complete.

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.

I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

A father and his son are in a terrible car crash. The father is killed instantly—but the son survives, barely, his life hanging in the balance. He's rushed to the hospital and into surgery, but there's only one doctor there, and as soon as the doctor sees the boy, the doctor says, 'I can't operate on my own son!' How could this be, if the boy's father was killed in the crash?

Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.

With the minivan in the air, rolling counterclockwise, the engine racing, Laurie screaming -- a fraction of a second, that's all -- Jacob would have thought of me -- who had held him, my own baby, looked down into his eyes -- and he would have understood I loved him, no matter what, to the very end -- as he saw the concrete wall flying forward to meet him.

A child was a brief and blissful interlude of responsibility, not a thing to be owned.

A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. —Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I did used to like trampolining, but I'm probably past it, I think. You need to have a really strong pelvic floor to be good at trampolining, and I've had three children.

The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.