Quotes About Parenthood

Having an infant is stressful, and I know I won't get a lot of sleep initially, but it will be worth it.

I love that Tom Daley's talking about surrogacy.

I think people in the U.K. best know me as the guy who will take their picture when they run into Tom Daley. But I'm also his husband and the dad to our child.

I'm really glad I didn't have kids earlier, because I probably would have ignored them. I was so into my career. I could just go and play a ton of shows, night after night after night. I can't do that anymore.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

We would love tons more kids. If they are all as good as Theodore we would like as many as we can have.

My first son Tony was born when I was only eighteen. I was a still a kid; I wasn't ready to be a dad, so he was put up for adoption and went off to live with a family that could care for him.

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.

It took three years from talking about it, to meeting with Wendie Wilson-Miller from 'Gifted Journeys' Surrogacy, to finding the right doctor, to doing the egg retrieval and finding the right surrogate.

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?" "I sure hope so," her father said, laughing himself.

Last time I was watching her, I left her in her crib and when I came back, she was a puppy. Just for a couple of hours, then she was herself again.' I mean, I almost couldn't speak. I said, 'Did it occur to you to tell me this?' And she said, 'Well, I thought it might be a one-time thing. I didn't want to worry you.

Whether I want kids is a secret I keep from myself—it is the greatest secret I keep from myself.

Mace let out an exasperated sigh. "It's bad enough we have the baby. Which I was accepting of because he's mine." "That's real big of ya, hoss.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.