Quotes About Parenthood

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.

L'amor matris, genitivo, soggettivo e accusativo, è probabilmente l'unica cosa vera della vita. La paternità può essere una finzione legale.

It's too bad the word miracle has been overused, because I swear it's the only word that fit the feeling of holding my daughter in my arms. My heart swelled to the size of the world.

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

By God's grace, my wife Shashi and I have been blessed with a daughter. It is the end of a long and painful wait for a child. It is a matter of unimaginable joy especially for my wife who had her heart set on another child ever since we lost our only son Shanu when he was just two-years-old.

Comedians have this happy, charmed life, where they're the centre of their own universe and can do what they want, but when you have kids you get a perspective on how unimportant you are in this world.

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.

I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

I've got three women in my life: my mama, ex baby mama and my new baby mama.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.

The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.

Abort the thought, save the baby

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it.