Quotes About Parenthood

Babies are wonderful.

I want babies.

I'm just like, 'Give me all the babies. If we can't have them, we're adopting.'

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

I'm not adopting a baby.

I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

Well, I think anybody who's had a baby can tell you that once you have a baby, they kind of become the main focus. I don't think there's gonna be a lot of room for anything else.

I've had a baby. I've had an abortion.

I just want a healthy, happy baby, so the whether it's a boy or a girl really doesn't matter.

I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

My son's baby paraphernalia always ends up in my bag.

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.

Before you have a baby, friends tell you 'sleep now,' and you laugh because you don't think that all those stories could be true. But they are.

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

I am scared of becoming a mother.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

As his sixth wife, Debbie became a stepmother to Blackmore's thirty-one kids, most of whom were older than she was. And because he happened to be the father of Debbie's own stepmother, Mem, she unwittingly became a stepmother to her stepmother, and thus a stepgrandmother to herself.

As his sixth wife, Debbie became a stepmother to Blackmore's thirty-one kids, most of whom were older than she was.

Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.

I bet you're rethinking your decision not to abort me, right around now. It turns out to be so much more painful to wait twenty years for me to do it myself.

Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like Reading in bed, and Giving a bath, and Running while holding the seat of a bicycle. Parenthood contains such moments of warmth and intimacy, but isn't them. It's cleaning up. The great bulk of family life involves no exchange of love, and no meaning, only fulfillment. Not the fulfillment of feeling fulfilled, but of fulfilling that which now falls to you.

Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.