Eva Mendes Quotes

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at the right time. My kids are getting older, so it's getting easier, but being a mother - it's a difficult thing to juggle.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.

Everything seems like, 'If I don't change this diaper correctly, she won't go to college.' My advice is, know that the time does go by fast... it's a huge roller coaster; it's the hardest thing and most rewarding thing.

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

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.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

Now it's not D.T.F., It's now, diapers, tantrums and formula.

On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.