Parenthood -- Put Into Words

Words from celebritites about the joys and frustrations of parenting.

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Fun for the Whole Family

Kid around with these famous personalities as they share their thoughts about moms, dads, and raising children:


Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You’ll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
-- Ray Romano in Everything and a Kite (Bantam)


There are two things in life for which we are never prepared: twins.
-- Josh Billings


My parents treated me like I had a brain -- which, in turn, caused me to have one.
-- Diane Lane in Hollywood Life


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
-- Milton Berle


What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
-- Ben Stein on CNN


There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
-- Jerry Seinfeld


I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment, than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
-- Sean Penn in O, the Oprah Magazine


Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin


I figure somewhere between kid number one and number seven, I must have learned a few things.
-- Mel Gibson in McCall's


Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
-- Lawana Blackwell


With kids, the days are long, but the years are short.
-- John Leguizamo in InStyle


If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
-- Jackie Kennedy Onassis


Being a dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.
-- Conan O'Brien in People


The American Dream is not to own your own home but to get your kids out of it.
-- Dick Armey

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