Parenthood Quotes · Page 17

If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is…

— Kelly Corrigan

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist.…

— Karen DeCrow

I came to NBC on 'Friday Night Lights' and they have supported that show and found ways - unprecedented ways - to…

— Jason Katims

I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your kids Ramen noodles…

— Gwen Moore

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme…

— Natalie Portman

Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…

— Virginia Postrel

My promise to my children: for as long as I live, I will always be your parent first, and your friend second.…

— Anonymous

“Then the real fear began. With the baby outside me and vulnerable, I suddenly saw the world as hostile and dangerous. Anything,…

— Katherine Dunn

I think the point of America, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do…

— Shonda Rhimes

“Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the…

— Philip Roth

I understand that I have many, many friends who are women who understand Planned Parenthood better than you or I will ever…

— Donald Trump

I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother…

— George Carlin

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to…

— Anne Tyler

I think parenthood brought a certain change of habits in my daily days.

— Soha Ali Khan

“All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood Not”

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

— Jonathan Sacks

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

— Anonymous

“There is no such thing as loving a child too much.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

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

— Louise Hart

Darling, The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! REMEMBER THAT!

— L RAE BROWN

“Just that sons and fathers Are like mirrors and daughters are soft”

— Richard L. Ratliff

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

— Meghan Daum

“The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.

— Barbara Johnson

“Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Andrew Solomon

I'm done being the mature one in this co-parenting relationship!

— Anonymous

I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.

— Mila Kunis

Sunday is the day we get to focus on what's important. It's a reminder to us parents that the most important thing…

— Anonymous

“You don’t realize how much you’ll miss the asphyxiating intimacy of early parenthood until you can finally breathe again.”

— Janelle Brown

“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

— Wayne Dyer

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

— Bernie Sanders

“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

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

— Richard Carmona

Planned Parenthood's bottom line is number. And, with abortion as its primary money-maker, that means implementing a quota.

— Abby Johnson

Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a…

— C. Sommerville

“There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when…

— Abhijit Naskar

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able…

— Freya Stark