Quotes About Parenthood

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

What is a daughter but good fortune, as complicated as she might be.

His wife was beside him, buried in pillows. He was fifty-one and would be a new father again by the end of the year. This morning, woken by the wind, he had put his thumb to each fingertip, counting decades.

Mr. Persichetti knew that six weeks before its time and with a good thirty-minute ride to the hospital once the ambulance came (would it ever come?), the baby would most likely not survive, would

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

Truth is, I didn't really tell him anything much anymore. Richard had gone off into the forest o his own journey to self-discovery, as people do at our age, but he forgot to drop a trail of crumbs for me to follow him. I had no clue where he was and I'd stopped trying to find out, mainly because he didn't seem to notice or care at I wasn't looking anymore. Too much of the time, I felt like a single parent.

My mother told me that when Jane and I were born, all her dreams had come true. I

But they could not stay, because you could not raise a baby in a trench.

He glanced over at the woman who had never been his wife but who had, incredibly, given him a child and made his life mean something. The idea that he had ever held her hand, or tasted her mouth, or made love to her, even now seemed as unlikely as being bitten by a radioactive spider.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Siempre hemos tenido miedo - me dijo-, pero a veces es más fuerte el amor a nuestros hijos que el miedo

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.

I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

There's nothing more life-changing than fatherhood.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.