Ayobami Adebayo Quotes

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.

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.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

I'm the father of four daughters.

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

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.

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.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide.