Anne Lamott Quotes

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.