Quotes About Parenthood

My mom has always said that you don't know what love is until you've had a child.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

I can't imagine loving somebody more than I love Wyatt [my son]. I can't. I just don't know how that's possible.

I love to be with my twins. They are my true joy in life.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn't. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

Build me a cabin in Utah Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa" That must be what it's all about That must be what it's all about

David often lectured Tom upon the responsibilities of parenthood which annoyed Tom who considered himself to be a quite exemplary fairy parent. He provided generously for his children and grandchildren and only in exceptional circumstances had any of them put to death.

Children made me sick.

Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.

Sometime it seems like the real miracle of life if that a man and woman were able to get along well enough to make a baby in the first place.

I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

He tells them he and his wife are keeping the baby, because it's the last link to their little girl or some cowpuckie like that.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality—not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.

Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Parenthood is not learned: Parenthood is an inner change.