Quotes About Parenthood

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.

Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity.

Let me bury here the rage I feel to have been twice robbed: once of the child I wanted, and once of the son I loved.

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regarding, yet unselfish, abandon.

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

boys grow up and cleave to their wives. A girl is a daughter forevermore, no matter where she goes or how many young'uns she has.

There's a difference between the words father and dad . And it's more than three words.

There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me (truly you have not lived until you have changed one baby's diaper while another baby quietly vomits on your shin) and finally I came to the thought: all right, then, annihilate me, that other self was a fiction anyhow.

She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father's.

When feminist author Shere Hite or columnist Ann Landers reports that a surprisingly high percentage of their respondents are having affairs or would rather not have had children, we should automatically ask ourselves who is most likely to answer these questionnaires: someone having an affair or someone reasonably content, someone exasperated by her kids or someone happy with them.

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.

No one could say it was my choice to kill the twins, any more than it was my decision to bring them into the world.

Elder James E. Faust expressed a similar feeling this way: "Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness" (Ensign, November 1977, p. 11).

I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.

I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete.