Quotes About Parenthood

Children bring their own love with them when they come.

I want to have children, please God, with a woman that I love and that I'm very attracted to.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

There is nothing like the love or a child.

I'd rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.

I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

Children are something we want or don't want.

Besides, consider what he did. He gave his Son. His only Son. Would you do that? Would you offer the life of your child for someone else? I wouldn't. There are those for whom I would give my life. But ask me to make a list of those for whom I would kill my daughter? The sheet will be blank. I don't need a pencil. The list has no names.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

I love you, Mom. Maybe now you'll have a chance to grow up.

I want babies too, he said huskily. Daughters as beautiful as you are.

This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children. he muttered. So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet...here I am?If you could answer the question, I said as politely as I could, that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either

So since my parents got divorced when I was young, my dad moved to this weird place in Europe. He also got married and sadly got cancer. He and his wife can't have kids either." (Page 25)

Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world

When you talk of not wanting children, it is impossible to avoid sounding defensive, like you're trying to prove the questionable beauty of a selfish and too-tidy existence.

To paraphrase Woody Allen in Annie Hall, love was too weak a word for what I felt for that tiny crying creature who had my eyes, my mouth, my hair. I lurved my daughter, my Ava. I looved her. I lurfed her.

or not they plan to keep the baby. They

The impulses that lead to the complex desires of adult life can be arranged under a few simple heads. Power, sex, and parenthood appear to me to be the source of most of the things that human beings do, apart from what is necessary for self-preservation.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that's shot more classically. And that's something in 'Parenthood' that has evolved.