Quotes About Parenthood

That's going to be the highlight of my life - having children and settling down.

He was the sort of child people imagine their children will be, before they have children.

Siamo andati via di casa, ci siamo sposati, siamo diventati genitori, abbiamo scoperto che il seme della grettezza fioriva anche dentro di noi.

He's shouting that hatred and war made him nuts. I start running down the hill agreeing with him. The Mrs. gives me a look and puts her hands over Maribeth's ears. We're all running. The Mrs. starts screaming about the feel of the scythe as it opened her up. The girls bemoan their unborn kids. We make quite a group. Since I'm still alive I keep clipping trees with my shoulders and falling down.

Trap. Horrible trap. At one's birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget.

There are many kinds of men and many kinds of women and each kind of them have a different feeling in them about the baby that was once all them.

But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood the paradox until I had a child. I bring my son to work and let other parents do the same. I am very intentional about the workplace that I create, and my son is a big part of that.

I feel what works for one new mom may not necessarily work for another, so it's better to find one's own path.

Someone like Jessica Ennis-Hill having her first baby then bouncing back to become world champion in the space of the year. I maybe wouldn't have appreciated just how big an achievement that was until I had my own child. It's an incredible thing.

When my son was born, I spent a lot of time with him. I came to know a better side of me that I didn't know till now. He is actually the biggest change in my life.

Ariana has completed me. I felt I'd lived all my high points, till the baby came and life's been on a high ever since. It feels like with her I'm discovering innocence all over again.

I feel like my timeline has moved so many times in my brain. I used to be like, 'Maybe like 30' because that's when my older sister had her first kid. Now that I'm 30, I'm like, 'I don't want to have a baby in a long time!'

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy.

They were too young to be proper parents. They never said, 'You've got to go to bed or you'll be tired for school'. They didn't mind - they let me stay up.

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.

'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

That time, when everyone else is asleep, and it's just me and my little man, that's the best time I've ever spent in my life. I just get to love on him. It, literally, is the best.

The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers.

Don't even think about it. Who would have children. You have kids, they grow up, they hate you and you die.

Being a mother is as beautiful and rewarding as it is painful and devastating. It is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.