Quotes About Parenthood

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

My children are my whole life.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Kids come into the world before their brains are fully developed. The result? Parenthood.

The greatest risk there is. The risk of parenthood. You're a mother.

You will never, ever understand how much I love you…until you have children of your own and then every word I've ever said will make perfect sense.

Someone once told me that having a child was like having your heart walk around outside of your body.

A baby opens you up, is the problem. No way around it unless you want to pay someone else to have it for you. There's before and there's after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another. Some deal by attempting to micromanage; some go crazy; some zone right the hell on out. Or all of the above.

The baby's first birthday. Surgery day, I point out, because I have trouble calling it birth. Anniversary of the great failure. Ari.

There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while--the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman--but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones.

It struck Seeker that she did not know the man her own son had become.

In your time, politicians win points in the polls for proposing to punish unmarried teenaged mothers like me, not to mention our children.

Also suggest they place this message on their answering machine/cell phone and on the front door: "We had the baby, it's a _____, we're fine but tired, enjoying our babymoon. Please call in a few days so we can plan to have you over.

One wanted children; had them, and brought them up: and then, in spite of all the calculations of time and care, they defeated one by producing a result which seemed, to say the least, almost mathematically incorrect.