Quotes About Parenthood

I've thought about having a family. I just haven't seen any that really appeal to me.

I suppose I should make all the skis six foot and let Leif grow into them. That way we could all use them easy enough." He shook his head. "I know my wife would love to ski again. You ever seen anyone carry a baby in a sling or backpack while on skis?

Can you come here?' I say. I want to touch him before the pain is upon me, before the pain seals me into a selfish world where only I exist. He comes to me, holds my hands. "So this is it," he says. "In a couple of hours we'll be parents.

Ed Lim had gone to four different toy stores searching... he would have bought it for his daughter, whatever the price.

It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight,

It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to return to that place again.

Finally, thank you to my son: you're still the best thing I've created.

Maybe she didn't know what she was giving up until afterward. Maybe once she saw the baby she changed her mind.

It was a place you could take refuge, if you knew how to get in. And each time you left it, each time your child passed out of your sight, you feared you might never be able to

Margaret did not question; she understood this, how slippery and elastic time was in the fact of your child, how it seemed to move not in a line but in endless loops, circling back again and again, overwriting itself.

There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more.

Don't ever tell the mother of a newborn that her baby's smile is just gas.

Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy and complaining about the shadow over my feet, I'd have cherished every minute of it and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was to be my only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman."

thought he knew how to begin. "After you kids came along," he told her, "your mother said something I didn't really understand. She said, 'I look at the babies and see myself as they'll remember me.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function.

A baby takes everything from you. Everything you were before." She waved a hand, a ghostly flicker in the blackness. "Your time. Your figure. Your looks. They take your sleep until you don't know how to function. But all that is just a disguise for the most important thing they take from you: your selfishness. And that's the true gift of parenthood.

C'était aussi pour cette raison que j'avais adoré devenir père. Avoir un enfant est un antidote à cette nostalgie et à cette fraîcheur fanée. Avoir un enfant vous oblige à vous délester d'un passé trop lourd, seule condition pour vous projeter vers demain. Avoir un enfant signifie que son avenir devient plus important que votre passé. Avoir un enfant, c'est être certain que le passé ne triomphera plus jamais sur l'avenir.

I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

Abortions will not let you forget.You remember the children you got that you did not get.

I thought I heard you—one of you—saying it was a pity—umph—a pity I never had—any children … eh? … But I have, you know … I have …" The others smiled without answering, and after a pause Chips began a faint and palpitating chuckle. "Yes—umph—I have," he added, with quavering merriment. "Thousands of 'em … thousands of 'em… and all boys.