Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

Nothing is more precious than your baby.

You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !

I'm more eager to have kids than I am to go back to college. I want to be a mom really badly.

My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.

I would like to have a baby.

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

I first knew I wanted to be a mom when my sister Kathy had her first baby, Paris. She was so beautiful and sweet.

When I'm ready, I'll have a baby - and I will love that.

Like all parents, I want to give my kids the best start in life.

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

Having a kid motivates you to really take stock of yourself and how much of yourself you want to be reflected back in the actions of your kid.

The kids are our future.

The number one thing in my whole life is my children, and I want to be there for them.

Motherhood is quite challenging. Everyday is a whole new adventure with your child.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?

I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.