Sonya Hartnett Quotes

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

My stuff is observational, what people do with their lives from the angle of a man that can't pull it off. So if I talk about having a family, it would be through the medium of a man who is in no fit state to be given a child to look after.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

I just feel that if you're going to have kids, you need to believe that, emotionally, you can give them a really good life.

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

It's hard enough to be in a marriage and then have a kid, then kids: it changes everything.

As every parent knows, not every moment is going to be super exciting.

Having small children, you start thinking about how everything in your life revolves around doing the best you can for this little being, trying to make a good life for that person.

I got four kids.

We've been married for 10 years. We have a five-year-old boy and an 11-month-old boy and life is good. It's a constant juggle but it is so incredibly fulfilling when you get a chance to look into each other's eyes at the end of the day and say, "We made it through another one."

Everybody has this idea: You have children, and your entire life is complete. That's how I imagine it. I imagine I'll have children and then my whole life will just seem complete.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.

My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.