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Quotes About Parenthood

I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.
~ Lewis Black
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
~ Matthew McConaughey
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.
~ Meghan Daum
As long as you're in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there
~ Mark Twain
No se acude al matrimonio en busca de una conversación ingeniosa, sino para engendrar hijos; el matrimonio es la alianza de dos corazones, no de dos cerebros.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
we exchanged chitchat for 5 1/2 hours about our respective children, about our ex-old men, all very, very heterocetera.
~ Audre Lorde
My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless.
~ August Strindberg
Not all gay men send me penis pictures. But no straight men do. And to date, no woman has sent me a picture of her vaginal canal. 'I know it's a little stretched out, but I've had four kids. What do you expect? LOL.
~ Augusten Burroughs
At night, I fly down to Earth, and I watch my littlest Babyboy sleep. He's seven, and he's got a picture of me on his wall—right in between Shaquille O'Neal and the Incredible Hulk.
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
Anyhow, she knew when she looked into her heart she'd never really wanted kids anyhow. She'd seen how kids dropped from the sky and exploded people's lives like squalling neutron bombs. She was honest enough to admit she was too selfish for that; her life, her only life, was her own.
~ Stephen Baxter
Hundreds of babies who were born to hundreds of parents. Every one of them the hero of their own life.
~ Stephen Chbosky
You only live through your kids once.
~ Stephen Colbert
He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.
~ Noorilhuda, The Governess
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
~ Mike Myers
Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.
~ Tina Brown
I'm just passionately in love with my kids.
~ Sheena Easton
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
~ Kent Nerburn
I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.
~ Anthony Kiedis
I'm not exactly sure how many kids I have, but yes, I do miss them officially, for the record. In case any of them are listening, I love you.
~ Tre Cool
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...
~ Louis de Bernieres
It's like I'm looking through a funnel, she had said, gazing at his newborn form. The world has just shrunk to me and him.
~ Jojo Moyes
One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear- old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it was already the onset of the Argentine winter, cold and windy. That night, the little boy had a coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as suffering from asthmatic bronchitis and prescribed the normal remedies, but the attack lasted for several days. Ernestito had developed chronic asthma, which would afflict him for the rest of his life and irrevocably change the course of his parents' lives.
~ Jon Lee Anderson
And human babies, whose brains are so enormous that a child must be pushed out through the birth canal a year before he or she can walk are bets so huge that a woman can't even put her chips on the table by herself.
~ Jonathan Haidt