Quotes About Parenthood

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

First you have your baby, which in and of itself is a stunning feat. I won't go into specifics, but ouch and no thank you.

I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old-fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears

I've never been tempted to sleep with the same woman every night myself. Let alone reproduce myself in a leaky, noisy miniature human.

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Avoir commis tous les crimes, hormis celui d'être père

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

there was no greater joy than having a child, no matter how much pain or how many problems they bring with them.

It's a strange thing, having a child," he said. It completely alters your most fundamental priorities. When my eldest daughter was born, I realized that I would do anything - anything - to protect her. If I had to set myself on fire to save her from something, I would do it with the utmost relief and gratitude. It's quite a thing, quite a privilege, to care about someone so much that the measure of worth of your own life is changed so much." Tatsu.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.

Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.

Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.

I pretty much just hang out with the kid. I want, like three more, because that's all I ever want to do.

Having a child is the best thing that could happen.