Penelope Cruz Quotes

To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

I think that having a baby is going to change my mind in so many ways. I have no idea how, but I'm looking forward to finding out.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

Children change you. They really do.

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.

For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

Motherhood is such an evolving journey.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

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.

Being a mom changes your life. It actually has made me become more comfortable in my own skin and my own body because it's such a growth and a learning lesson.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

You hear people say it all the time, how life changes so drastically. But you can't possibly grasp how beautiful that is until you have your child.

I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on.

Having this lovely person in my life. My daughter is the funniest person I know and I couldn't imagine my life without her. I think it also starts an amazing journey in a woman. You don't obsess about yourself in the way you used to, as the bulk of your time isn't spent on you.

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.