Quotes About Parenthood

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

vomiting baby fountains.

Imagine that your own children, who you brought into the world, just walk past you. It's enough to make anybody crazy.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

Haroon's birth really had a profound effect on me and I think it had on Konkona also. It is fabulous, it is the best thing that has happened to me. Such a beautiful feeling I can't tell you. It's a beautiful experience.

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.

If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it's possible. It just takes a combination of a little planning and a lot of living your life.

I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.

I was a careless Protestant, my wife was a good Catholic, and we had six kids in seven years and I'd endorse that to everyone.

I haven't been a prototype mother.

When Liv had Milo, that's when it really came full circle to me. I am so proud of her. We are both single mothers but in different eras.

Aside from dancing, the biggest and proudest moment of my whole entire life was when my son Mark was born.

It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse.

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

I was foolish and young, before that, viewing the matter closely, I saw what it is to beget children.

Vich Deelish   My heart is in the heart of my son     And my life is in his life surely   A man can be twice young     In the life of his sons only.