Louis C. K. Quotes

It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

I have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is - besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day - you plan what time you're going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning.

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

I've got three kids, so there's not much downtime.

I worry about my children, actually. I'm trying to give them a decent upbringing but I sometimes worry that that means they're going to be kind of mediocre adults. Like maybe I should throw them out for a bit and give them some adversity.

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

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are like my children as well. They multiply all the time. So you can have everything and say I can get all this done and then late at night one of your kids have a freak out about school or an assignment you end up staying up til 3 in morning helping them through it. Or somebody gets sick or has a crisis.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

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.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

You think my kids just popped out of the ground?

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.