Parenthood Quotes

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

It's not Planned Parenthood. No, it's planned genocide. You can quote me on that.

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

It's the best thing going, parenthood.

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.

Pominville is going to have to open a planned parenthood center!

Parenthood changes your outlook on life. Makes you realize what things are important. The responsibility is huge. Just to have that responsibility in your hands is a little frightening, but it's exciting at the same time.

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient.

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

Unlike Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, I never voted to provide taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.

Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

There's never been a parent in my life.

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.