Quotes About Parenthood

She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness--things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice)

Deal. The pee nappies are yours.' Then she added, 'Your father can take care of the shitty ones.' Their laughter echoed through the deserted harbour. Anna would always remember that moment as one of the best in her life. That moment when the ice thawed.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

Do you know how much a freaking baby costs? A million dollars.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

I'm your father. That's the great privilege of parenthood; we can comment on whatever we want.

Vampires," Sean said, the way parents usually said "teenagers" when their children were out of earshot.

In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said it very eloquently: "My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.

I figli] Ci divorano vivi e noi li benediciamo.

I look at my gorgeous girl and boy, with their incredible zest for life, and I count my undoubted blessings. But there's no question about it: I wish I'd started my family sooner. Much much sooner.

My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called 'And Tango Makes Three,' about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg 'til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face.

Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

If you have kids, you feel everything stronger. It's like someone turning the lights on in your inner room.