Becoming a mother or father is so much more than giving…

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

— Eve Merriam

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

— Sam Levenson

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

— Ashley Jensen

There's never been a parent in my life.

— Shia LaBeouf

Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die and then some. Mom, there…

— Christopher Titus

Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children because if you raise a kid with…

— Christopher Titus

“Children often overestimate their importance in the parent's life”

— Altaf Tyrewala

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly…

— John Cho

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't…

— Jon Hamm

“We parents are in the process of losing parts of ourselves, of waking up each morning to find ourselves changed by our children. We…

— Daniel Gottlieb

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the…

— Henry Selick

Our mother and father are our way of life.

— Anonymous

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how…

— Marian Keyes