Quotes About Parenthood

I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.

A restraining order is just a piece of paper but a swift kick in the nuts is planned parenthood.

Having a baby doesn't make you a mother any more than buying a piano makes you fucking Beethoven

I've always wanted to be a dad.

You never realize it until you're pregnant, or holding your baby in your arms, but your heart, soul and peace of mind will never be yours again. The tiny hijackers take over before they draw their first breaths, and you would do anything to keep them safe. Anything.

Motherhood. Not for sissies.

You never realize it until you're pregnant, or holding your baby in your arms, but your heart, soul and peace of mind will never be yours again.

The baby would be raised by committee as I tried to earn enough to cover our costs: Health care. Food. Clothes. A car seat and all the other gear.

Parenthood was ninety percent forgiveness, ten percent lies and a hundred percent love

You have a child, so you know. You are my heart, baby girl. You are everything I did right. And I want you to know I would do it all again, every wonderful terrible second of it. I would do years and years of it again for one minute with you.

Antoine was Julien's father in every way that mattered. It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.

Most people fantasize that if they won the lottery, they would quit their jobs and immerse themselves in leisure, play, family, parenthood, occasional thrilling sex; they'd eat when they were hungry and sleep whenever they felt sleepy. Many people, if they won the lottery and got rich quick, would want to live like elephants.

A crying baby is the best form of birth control.

Having a child is, well, it's just profound. Even as they grow, you just stop and look at them and you keep thinking in absolute wonderment, Where did you come from? How is it possible you're here?

the most potent reward for parenthood I have known has been delight in my fully grown progeny. They are friends with an extra dimension of affection. True, there is also an extra dimension of resentment on the children's part, but once offspring are in their thirties, their ability to love their parents, perhaps in contemplation of the deaths to come, expands, and, if one is fortunate, grudges recede. []p. 209]

There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

Suzanne Vale had a problem, and it was the one she least liked thinking about: She'd had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay. He forgot to tell her, and she forgot to notice.

Pregnancy is a disease from which you recover in 18 years and 9 months.

No, Captain Madsen, you don't regret having had a child simply because you lose it. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death.

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

Não, capitão Madsen, não nos arrependemos de ter tido uma criança só porque a perdemos. Ter uma criança não é um negócio que se faz com a vida. Como eu disse, uma criança é um dom. E o que fica depois de uma criança desaparecer é a recordação dos anos que pôde viver. Não a sua morte.

War was easier than daughters.

It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her.

said Mother vaguely.