Quotes About Parenthood

If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

If you love the father of your child you feel he has given enough. If you don't love him all you want is his money.

Crezusem c? a face copii e cel mai bun mijloc de a învinge moartea. Nu e câtu?i de pu?in adev?rat. Po?i s? mori împreun? cu ei, ?i asta e ca ?i cum nici unul dintre voi nu ar fi existat vreodat?.

Alexandre e Selene eram filhos do amor. Antes fossem órfãos! Os casais apaixonados estão demasiado ocupados com eles próprios para se interessarem pela progenitura: preocupar-se-á a árvore que cresce com os frutos que caem?

We of the Twentieth Century have abandoned the practice of holding something in reserve when we love our children, assuming – as our ancestors would never have dared to do – that they will reach adulthood as a matter of course.

The doctor turned to me and asked, "Mr. Goldthwait, would you like to cut the cord?" And I said, "Isn't there anyone more qualified?"

We had a C-section. That's when the baby comes out like toast.

Mi patria es mi hijo y mi biblioteca.

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

When you have a child, you are never number one again. Someone is more important than you. It changes your worldview. It has to.

Parenting. It ain't for sissies.

Baby, you'll have to grow some more before this makes sense to you, but your daddy and your mamma loved each other something fierce, and when you love somebody like that, Miss Scout, why that's what you want to do. That's what everybody wants to do when they love like that. They want to get married, they want to kiss and hug and carry on and have babies all the time.

Whenever I got home late, I'd always go to my son's room first, to see his sleeping face. Sometimes I was seized by a desire to squeeze him so hard he might break.

My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

I need enough room to eventually throw a baseball with a child; that's all the yard I need. That's all I want.

Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.

I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.