673 Quotes About Parenthood

...we're not eighteen anymore. We've lived. We've created things that last – things of joy, and things of burden.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

He was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

You know that moment right after your child says or does something that pushes your buttons? That oh-so-brief moment before you say or do something in response? That is the moment you have a choice...to react or relate,to command or communicate,to belittle or to be an adult.That moment is a gift of time that can make a lifetime of difference. Use it wisely.

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.