Quotes About Parenthood

I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.

Before I had my son, I used to travel a lot, almost 40-50 days at a time for cricket tournaments.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

Millions of Indian housewives remain silent about the complete lack of sex in their marriage after the first child is born. Most husbands—modern, urban, educated, young, successful and independent—forget that their wives need sexual fulfilment as much as they do.

When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.

I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life.

Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.