Quotes About Parenthood

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a mother can understand.

We don't get to choose who we fall in love with. If we did, the world would have fewer single mothers.

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.

I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.

Your children are perfume of your love.

Children are something, don't ya think? " she rarely spoke in that way, the freaky speculative way." I mean, you fall in love and as a result, little people are running around

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

Will carried Zoe on his back and zoomed around on the sidewalk and she laughed and bounced up and down and lost one of her flip-flops so we had to go back and retrace our steps in the dark which I suppose is the meaning of life.

I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head. A child should never have to choose.

A child is both an anchor and a set of wings. My old way of doing things was gone.

carrying children. It is the most wonderful weight to bear.

But no matter how a family comes together, and no matter how it comes apart, this is true and will always be true: you cannot lose a child. And we did not lose a child. We were given one. And she was glorious.

when people get married, they share the love of a couple. But when children arrive, they create another love, not just for the new additions, but for the new entity they have created. The family. It is not better than a couple's love, it's complementary, forged with a new appreciation, and a wider, expansive heart.

You learn a lot about your man when you become the mother of his child.

Childbirth, said Sally, is an unpleasing process. It must be quite awful for the father who, according to Walter, suffers even more than the mother. I don't quite understand about that, but of course I take his word for it.

God, or whoever fills in during his absence, has seen fit to make it easier to become a father than to pass one's driving test.

La gente normale mette al mondo dei figli; noi romanzieri dei libri. Siamo condannati a metterci la vita, anche se quasi mai ce ne sono grati. Siamo condannati a morire nelle loro pagine e a volte perfino a lasciare che siano loro a toglierci la vita

Ha querido Dios, o quien en su ausencia el cargo ostente, que sea más fácil ser padre y traer una criatura al mundo que obtener el carnet de conducir

If you ever have a daughter—a blessing I wouldn't wish on anyone, because it's Murphy's Law that sooner or later she will break your heart—anyhow, as I was saying, if you ever have a daughter, you'll begin, without realizing it, to divide men into two camps: those you suspect are sleeping with her and those you don't. Whoever says that's not true is lying through his teeth.

nothing to offer anymore. That you were becoming a respectable citizen. And you wanted to be close to your mama's spirit," she said. "Pretty smart for a kid." Seth grinned. "So what happened when Jesse came home?" she asked. "Jesse never did acknowledge the baby he'd produced. He married his

Devorah told me, "Our daughter is grown," and there were tears in her eyes.