Quotes about Parenthood

I'd rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.

Besides, consider what he did. He gave his Son. His only Son. Would you do that? Would you offer the life of your child for someone else? I wouldn't. There are those for whom I would give my life. But ask me to make a list of those for whom I would kill my daughter? The sheet will be blank. I don't need a pencil. The list has no names.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.

Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.

Know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.

Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.

As long as you're in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there