Quotes About Parenthood

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

'We have to be back in three hours,' Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This,' Gansey replied, 'is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.'

If I ever have a child.. Insh'allah I will... I wish it's a girl. I want a girl child.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

I remember holding my son, and looking over at my own mother and saying, "Now I understand why the sun comes up at day and the stars come out at night. I understand why rain falls gently. Now I understand you, Mother" …

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

In the natural childbirth classes my wife and I took, the birthing process was represented by a hand puppet being pushed through a sock. So at the actual birth I was shocked to see all this blood. The thing I had prepared myself for was a lot of lint.

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love, all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

It's not sinking in, as I still believe I am a kid! And now I am going to have a kid. I'm slowly digesting it.

For me, having kids was a complete gamechanger. Overnight, your entire world changes - it's incredible. The 'smaller things' you used to worry about, suddenly don't seem important and all you can think about is keeping these little people healthy and happy.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

To meet my little girl for the first time was a humbling experience. She's got my eyes and a smile that just melts my heart.

My kids' happiness kind of outweighs everything. Just seeing the smiles on their faces and the anticipation leading up to Christmas is what I love now, having kids of my own.

In real life, being a new mom, I would like to be able to sleep. I'd like to snap my fingers and be asleep because I'm a little sleep-deprived, at the moment.

So many people have so much trouble having kids.

I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.

I already have a son One is enough? There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I rather failed one the fatherhood front didn't I? Some errors don't bear repeating.

No olvide lo que le digo, el primer hijo embaraza tanto al padre como a la madre.