Quotes About Parenthood

Prior to our daughter being born, I think getting married is another big step. That definitely settles things down personally.

Having a child changes your priorities. I am convinced, for me, it will be something very positive and give me even more motivation.

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.

I think parenthood does change your priorities quite drastically in an incredibly good way - most of the time.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

As soon as I had a child, he became the priority. Now, I fit my training around him. I've changed as an athlete.

I'm going to be a new dad and that's my priority.

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!

The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.

I never had a kid before, and it's the best. It's something you're privileged to be part of, and my favorite things in the world are my kid and wife.

Adoption has been on our minds for quite a while. The procedure took a couple of months. We wanted a baby, who is around six to seven months old.

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.

I would love to be producing movies, acting in more movies, and doing projects that are Oscar-worthy... have kids, be married, all that, being a normal human being as well, balancing it all out.

My greatest production is my children. Then, to see my grandbabies is the gravy.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

When people ask, 'How does it feel to be a dad?' Nothing I could've expected. It's better in such a different way. It's like unless you actually experience it, there's just no way you can explain with words.

There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.

I may or may not have disappointed Malaika as a boyfriend and a husband, but not as the father of her child.

It's so funny because a lot of times we'll have these discussions as writers, and you feel like you're having a discussion with your wife: 'I don't know. Are they ready to have another baby? Is it time? Well, she's not getting any younger.'

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.