Quotes about Parenthood
we exchanged chitchat for 5 1/2 hours about our respective children, about our ex-old men, all very, very heterocetera.
- Audre Lorde
If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful painting or carved the most exquisite figure I could not have felt the more exalted creator than I did when they placed my child in my arms.
- Dorothy Day
I feel like I was born the day my kids were and that my life before was only there to gain wisdom for them. The point is you do your best. Your very best every day. You do it, and you do it for them!
- Drew Barrymore
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into this world" (John 16:21).
- Jim Daly
Weep not for me but for thy children.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
A man can be twice young in the life of his sons only.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Fatherhood is wonderful.
- Terry Jones
There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires. This was not the case with us.
- Alice Hoffman
The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.
- Anonymous
However this child was conceived, God will be the Father. My baby won't enter the world unloved or unwanted. If I can't feel a full measure of joy, I know the Lord will.
- Francine Rivers
Sarah and Michael shared many happy years together. On their seventh anniversary, their prayers were answered with the birth of a son, Stephen. Stephen was followed by Luke, Lydia, and Esther.
- Francine Rivers