Quotes About Parenthood

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted.

I never thought I'd have a daughter.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.

I'm a mom. I live for my daughters.

The births of my two daughters were the two greatest moments of my life.

I have two daughters.

Since day one I've always wanted kids.

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide.

I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.

I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

My children have brought so much happiness and joy. To me, they're the very definition of love.

Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

Sometimes you can't be a champion. That doesn't determine who you are. But you can be a champion father, and that means everything.

When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Before children, it's kind of easy to be solipsistic - you and your wife are in this hermetic little thing, and your own desires, wants, needs, tastes dictate your choices. Then, suddenly, all of that's gone.

As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distribute federal taxpayer dollars from that department to Planned Parenthood clinics.

You just become more mature as a human being, having a child. The stakes are a lot higher, things are different. It teaches you to be patient and it's changed me a lot.

I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

When he grew tired again and started crying, I had no instructions to follow. Sydney gave a helpless shrug when I looked at her. So I just walked him around the living room, crooning classic rock songs until he dozed off and could be set down.