Becoming A Parent Quotes

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.

Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

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 stop.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be