Quotes About Parenthood

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?

Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Life has changed since my kids. I love visiting gaming parlors and playing with them for hours on end.

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

When you have a child, you really understand what it means to love, to have something to be selfless for. I think that elevates you. It elevates your consciousnesses, your level of thinking, your art and the way you approach it - everything.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

It's sad when marriages don't work out but having no children made separating easier.

I'm happy to settle down and have kids at a younger age than many people because I've always been older than my years.

If I got married one day and settled down, I would love to have more children.

I have seven boys.

I have four children and I have seven grandkids.

I did a season at the Royal Shakespeare Company. People say, 'Why aren't you doing theater anymore?' And I say, 'Look, my kids have gotten used to wearing shoes.'

It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.

Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

All I'm saying is before you have babies you should try everything you want to try.

No two births are the same and no two babies are the same, as I found out.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

I totally want, like, 18 babies.

I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!

I'm not cut out to lug babies around!