Quotes About Parenthood

My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy.

At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I don't think you need to get married necessarily. Girls just assume they will get married and have babies, but that isn't the right thing for everyone.

Vanni had the kids on the bed with her. She was lying on her back with Matt curled up against her on one side and Hannah on the other, both of them sleeping with their mouths open. Vanni was sound asleep, but there was the smallest smile on her lips. She had her arms around them, holding them close, one of Marianne's afghans pulled over them. And Paul fell in love all over again.

Preacher's baby had arrived, and Joe liked babies—he'd been an uncle five times. He'd always thought that by now he'd have a couple of his own. The

Tell you what I'll do for you," she said, looking up at him. "When Mattie's a little older, I'll have this IUD removed. We'll get you started on your own small herd." That made him smile. "That would be nice, Vanni." "Will

She shook her head against his shoulder. She inhaled his scent, remembered the lusty night that had gotten them here. She closed her eyes. Such a sweet memory…. And he felt one of them kick him in her belly. He pulled her closer, tighter, wanting more of that.

I'm hoping for a girl," he said. "Are you?" "I have an idea you might cut me off at two." "I'm not wild about throwing up or waddling, but I sure love carrying around a little piece of you. You're right—you make excellent babies." "We all have our special talents," he said. *

I've never felt more at home." She touched his handsome face. "If last night made a baby, it will be a beautiful baby. I don't want Mel's help to make sure it doesn't stick. If it's there, it's yours—and I want it." "Then that's how it will be," he said. He kissed her deeply, passionately. "Whatever you want." "I

If he was going to be a father he would be an involved father. He was more than committed to taking on little Matt and he hoped…no, he prayed, Vanni could accept his child as part of the package. But he had no idea how to go about telling her. Vanni scared him to death. She had a helluva temper. It

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

As we carry our baby inside us, we know almost nothing about it that distinguishes it from anyone else's baby--except that we love it unlike any other baby.

I feel sorry for young people today who feel so alone that they have to mate with their first crush. It shocks me that so many young brides are pregnant at the alter. When you have kids late in life, you appreciate them more. They keep you young, and you see the world through better eyes. You can give your children a finer sense of values, too, because if you're lucky, you own values have improved with time.

This is why parents want grandchildren. Really they want their own children back again, they long to feel that vanished and complete love.

I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.

Neurotics, because of their willingness to assume responsibility, may be quite excellent parents if their neuroses are relatively mild and they are not so overwhelmed by unnecessary responsibilities that they have scant energy left for the necessary responsibilities of parenthood.

Megan and Marty's nine-month-old daughter with a mop of red curls.

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

A little into it they fucked for a kid. Squeezed one out. Couple years later fucked for another. Now she's here. One more broad in a big-ass truck with the ring, the two kids, the latest cell phone.

Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we'd received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.