Quotes About Parenthood

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband. I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.

Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.

Yes, I used to miss my childhood, but I did get a chance to relive it through Esha and Ahaana.

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

I remember when I first found out I was having a boy, I became obsessed with buying boys' clothes. Then came my daughter, and I was obsessed with buying girls' clothes. Everything looks 10 million times cuter when it's teeny-tiny.

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

That 'woman becomes a mother' still makes a headline in 2015 reminds women that, for all their personal and collective achievements, society is still more interested in the limitations of biology, and rapt at the fact that women can - and do - make a wealth of choices about if and how they become a parent.

Having kids reminds you not to take things too seriously.

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

In Italy, there's the need to help our kids have kids, not to have new slaves to replace the children we're not having.

It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

The most that hurts is I couldn't see my kids growing up. They grow and go. Most of the time, I'm in training camps. I couldn't see that happening. This hurts me.

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

I love kids. I wanted more. I have two, but I would've had six or seven... I would have done that if I could.

I knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

I always imagined myself, like, 'OK, one day I'll have a kid,' and then finally it's here. It's just like, for the first time, you have so much love that you never knew existed towards this little human being that you hold in your arms.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.