Quotes About Parenthood

It seems to me a wrong and bitter thing to do, to bring a child into this world.

Making the decision to have a child—it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

Daddy!" she cried. "Are you okay?" There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

I'd never cried as an adult, but then she passed that child—moments old—into my arms and, from some place I'd never felt, never known, never sensed, a well broke loose, burst forth, and poured out of me. I couldn't stop them. Didn't want to.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'

The only thing they can think of about a man is Fatherhood!" said Terry in high scorn. "Fatherhood! As if a man was always wanting to be a father!

She was crossing the street to come to me when the car hit her. We planned a special date to celebrate our tenth anniversary. We left our eight-year-old daughter Samantha with a babysitter, snuck out in separate cars, parked the cars and walked toward each other on opposite sides of the street. We pretended we were meeting by mistake, as though we'd just glimpsed each other across the street and had to rush together.

She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.

Thare iz 2 things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and them iz twins... Twins are two very interesting acksidents tew happen in sumboddy elses family, but one twin at a time suits me the most.

It's double the giggles and double the grins, and Double the trouble if you're blessed with twins.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.

Life is two-riffic with twins.

Fatherhood is pretending that the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Suburban life is merely motherhood on wheels.

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true… I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

A woman may not want a lover, but may yet want a child.

I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.

Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones

Parenthood is like that." She tried to be doctorly. "The harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.