Kevin Nealon Quotes

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a woman can enjoy.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

I love being pregnant in general.

I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

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.

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

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

When somebody's calling you 'Mommy,' it's a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that's totally relying on you - and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was mega-selfish to start with, but it's lovely having that responsibility. It's scary.

Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.