Quotes About Parenthood

También sé que no voy a tener hijos sólo para no arrepentirme de no haberlos tenido; no me parece un motivo suficiente para traer más niños a este mundo. Aunque supongo que habrá gente que se reproduzca por eso, como una especie de seguro contra el arrepentimiento futuro.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit

That thought—that she was carrying his babe—steadied him enough to start off again. It was a strange but not unwelcome feeling to know that she carried his child. That someday she would hold a babe against her pretty white breast and that the child would be part of him as well. For the first time in a very long while, he yearned to see tomorrow.

Making the decision to have a child—it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go

No children, that is. Ernest, in the matter of posterity, had been a blind alley, a cul-de-sac. Strange and sad not to go on in any way, to come to a dead stop.

If you were a man, I'd have your baby, gangster or no.

After all, watching a child march successfully into the larger world is one of the greatest satisfactions parenthood has to offer.

Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

Let's have a baby, Abs. We've taken down terrorist cells. Surely we can handle one little baby. Spies

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Je ne pense pas avoir d'enfants. – Ah. Pourquoi? Ce n'est pas normal. Je m'en allai en fredonnant dans ma tête la chanson de Brassens : « Non, les brav's gens n'aiment pas que / L'on suive une autre route qu'eux. »

I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.

'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend's children, but I don't think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don't have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

We actively encourage teenagers not to have babies, we applaud young career women in their twenties, then before you know it you find yourself, as I did, aged 32 at a friend's wedding and being quizzed by everyone about why you haven't got round to reproducing yet.

In our society, it's an unwritten law that you can't have a child out of wedlock. I am not in agreement with that, but I am expected to follow it as I am a part of this society.

Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it.

Becoming a mom makes politics real. Whether it's education policies, health care policies, family leave - it informs your decision-making.

Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.

I haven't had any injuries since I've had my kid, so I think it's changed my body externally and internally. I don't know what it is, but I hadn't felt so great, body-wise, until I had my kid. I look more in shape, and I feel more in shape. And speaking from a confidence side, it's changed me in such a positive way.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.