Quotes About Parenthood

My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.

In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I was actually 18 years old.

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

Since I've become a mom, I'm more about comfort and simplicity. I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories.

Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two.

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared: twins.

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.

Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

I shook my head. Parenthood shouldn't work this way. Fathers shouldn't get to decide if they wanted to father or not, thirteen years in. Fathers who weren't dead should do their damn job.

There was a final reason I didn't want to have a kid. This one I never shared with Connie. I never seriously considered killing myself, but once you have a kid, you take that option off the table. And like I said, options are important.

I missed being a parent as much as a person crossing the desert misses water. I missed soccer games and family meals and coming in out of the snow after sledding, dancing in

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

I have friends who have children, and they have told me how remarkable it is to have a new life that is a piece of your own flesh anf blood. But I --" "I realized that I didn't love her because she was a piece of me, I loved her because she was a piece of you.

Children," Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. "I am never quite certain if I'm glad I had them.

I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir." "That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted. "Females are a prodigious amount of work.

I think having an infant causes a bit of an identity crisis.

It is interesting to break all the rules. I'm not married, I have a baby, and it feels infinitely more right.

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.