Quotes About Parenthood

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

I'm 482 months old; can you tell I'm a new father?

Os casais que concebem filhos que não desejam refletem os casais que querem filhos mas não podem ter. O problema destes últimos tem sido resolvido pelos ginecologistas com menor alarde e esforço. As pessoas autoritárias fazem mais objeções ao fato de as outras fazerem o que elas acham que não deve ser feito, ao invés de procurar realizar o que acham que devem.

Once the switch of parenthood is thrown, it changes you for ever & you can never escape the extra pull of humanity it gives you." - Richard Hammond

Once the switch of parenthood is thrown, it chages you for ever & you can never exchange the extra pull of humanity it gives you.

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom.

One place where I often see a positive focus and purpose is in the hardworking happiness of young mothers and fathers. Their new child becomes their one North Star, and they know very clearly why they are waking up each morning. This is the God Instinct, which we might just call the "need to adore." It is the need for one overarching focus, direction, and purpose in life, or what the Hebrew Scriptures describe as "one God before you" (Exodus 20:3).

Like many fathers, Lincoln's now had two permanent residences—one in Dunbar, Arizona, the other in his only son's head.

Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god. He imagined holding hands with Annabeth at a cafe. Maybe when they were older, watching their own kid chase seagulls across the forum...

Note to self: If you're trying not to have kids, don't marry a lady who is the Titan of motherhood.

how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear.

the nonconception of beloved children always a stumbling block to the if-I-could-live-my-life-over-again fantasy).

Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Parents were what they were; it was not up to you to try to puzzle them out.

When they sent us home from the hospital with him, it felt like we were actors, the leads in a heist film. Like we couldn't be getting away with such outrageous treasure.

The way a crane creates, then erases itself, from the skyline. He'd been referring to how I, as a copywriter, created R.H. Macy's, but the same metaphor might easily have been applied to how I, as a mother, was creating my son.

By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn't known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.

A friend of mine's just had a baby," Niki said. "She's really pleased. I can't think why. Horrible screaming thing she's produced.

Some women just aren't cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Babies weren't babies—they were land mines; bear traps; wasp nests. They were a noise, which was sometimes even not a noise, but merely a listening for a noise; they were a damp, chalky smell; they were the heaving, jerky, sticky manifestation of not-sleep.

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.