Quotes About Parenthood

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

On a baby of his own: You gotta be married first. That's my rule: marriage then baby!

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed.

He was already thinking about the videos he was going to make to teach his baby about calculus when he climaxed. DINAH

In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own.

And yet now, after all these years, I find that it doesn't matter whether I filmed it or not, because we lose our children not once but over and over again. That loss, I can feel it now, yesterday, tomorrow, every minute, and I promise you, I do.

It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant.

I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there.

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?