Parenthood Quotes

"Your child is happy. What else could you want?"

"There is no greater joy than watching your children grow, learn and laugh."

"I think it is only when you marry and become a parent that you begin to understand that life isn't always straightforward."

"It is amazing how a child can change your entire life."

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

Elizabeth Stone

"Parenthood... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last."

Peter Krause

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too."

Joyce Maynard

"The days are long, but the years are short."

Gretchen Rubin

"Simply having children does not make mothers."

John A. Shedd

"Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears."

Kate Winslet

"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life."

Maureen Hawkins

"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."

Alvin Toffler

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."

Mignon McLaughlin

"The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough."

Anna Quindlen

"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."

Marcelene Cox

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

Elizabeth Stone

“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive?”

Peter De Vries