Quotes About Parenthood

People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.

He doesn't even look at her because there is too much there, and he's afraid. She is his first child, his favorite, every mistake he ever made.

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 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 the worth of your own life is changed by it.

cuando una mujer no desea tener un hijo, generalmente cuenta con buenas razones para ello.

la mayoría de los abortos sólo cambian en que un niño no nace hoy pero otro nace unos años más tarde de la misma madre.

Two other illusions mislead us into thinking that things ain't what they used to be: we mistake the growing burdens of maturity and parenthood for a less innocent world, and we mistake a decline in our own faculties for a decline in the times.

Two other illusions mislead us into thinking that things ain't what they used to be: we mistake the growing burdens of maturity and parenthood for a less innocent world, and we mistake a decline in our own faculties for a decline in the times.25 As the columnist Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.

I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

Pode ser avassalador abrirmo-nos à beleza do mundo sobre a qual, em adultos, aplicámos uma demão de simplicidade. Mas, se não fizermos isso – por exemplo, se não estivermos plenamente envolvidos ao passear com um filho –, perdemos a noção da grandeza e do espanto que o mundo sem amarras produz constantemente e reduzimos as nossas vidas à necessidade básica.

What madness to beget children!

They were long married and had no children;

The nursery will fill up then." He cast a hopeful glance at Millie, who was eating a sparrow beside the fresh-kill pile. "I don't suppose . . . ?" Graystripe shook his head. "Our days of having kits are gone

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.