Quotes About Parenthood

This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.

On becoming a mother, I had forever left that solitary state of girlhood behind, and if I sometimes pined to be alone with Augustine as we used to be in our first love, a quick glance at my sleeping son's face soon banished such foolish thoughts. It was as if Augustine and I had been in a beautiful bubble but when my body split open in childbirth, the shimmering membrane broke and we were delivered to the world.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

After cricket I'd love to build a family, I'd love to get close to someone and have kids, see them evolve into something special.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

My oldest son's name is Oliver and my second son's name is Walter.

When I was twenty-six, I had my son.

I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.

My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.

The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to read with my son someday, seeing it anew through his eyes.

I'm done doing music so I can go kick it with my son.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.

The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

No parent should have to bury their child.