Glenn Kelman Quotes

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

I honestly did not want to have kids before I met Ray Rowe.

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.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

Having a baby, it's like a five year commitment.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

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.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.