Quotes About Parenthood

I would love to have twins - a girl and a boy - but who knows if that would happen. It would be my ideal situation. Wham, bam, be done with it.

Actually, I want twins.

I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

I feel like it's a natural progression for two people in love to talk about having children and taking that next step in creating a family.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

An IVF patient is - is living and breathing hope. It's... it's, um... it's - You wouldn't do it if you didn't have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it?

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.

When you're a parent it's like you wear your heart on the outside of your body.

It occurs to me that maybe a man can love his son only as much as he loves the mother.

There's a joke that I once heard a comedienne tell. It goes like this: "I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, 'Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up, they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?' She laughed and said, 'What do you mean, if?'

It makes me bounce out of boxing, I put all my spare time into being a dad.

It's quite funny because I always talk to baby through Susie's belly, and every time I start speaking, I just get kicked in the face.

My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

We've gone from one end of the spectrum, where we didn't want children, to the other end where we thought, 'yes, let's try it.'

'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.

If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.