Quotes About Parenthood

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one… on toast!

Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy.

Children are for people who can't have dogs.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins.

He could not look at his daughter without feeling his heart turn over.

The love for your kids, I'm learning, is a kind of love that has no conclusion, a feeling that multiplies back on itself.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

My decision to participate in 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' was purely for my daughter. I wanted her to be proud of me, and I know I have achieved it.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

Having a kid, it really puts a lot of things in perspective, and really kind of shows you what love is, and what it should be and what impact it should have on your life.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

I always said I was good football player, I'm fine as an actor, but I'm a great dad.

I have been married to Russell Ford since 2002, and we have two children.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.