Top 141 Parenthood Quotes

With social distancing restrictions in place, many are finding themselves isolated from their support networks and suddenly navigating parenthood differently than they expected.

If a woman goes to Planned Parenthood for birth control and discovers in the course of her visit that she has high blood pressure, Planned Parenthood can’t help her. She has to be referred to a FQHC for treatment.

I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood’s ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.

That’s the one thing before parenthood that no one really impressed upon me, that all of my children would be so different.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

Being a father gave me a new purpose for existing. That newfound purpose has somehow given me the stamina and patience to take on the endless stream of challenges that come along with parenthood.

I sent my personal check to the Planned Parenthood of Northern New Jersey. My wife and I do every year.

Planned Parenthood has been there for thousands of Maine people. From cancer screenings to crucial reproductive care, there are countless families that rely on their support and care.

The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.

For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone’s mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

There’s reality shows and things like that and I think ‘Parenthood’s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it’s just a solid, good show.

You’ll learn that the most worthwhile exercises are preceded by this very human phenomenon, fear. Marriage, parenthood, relationships.

There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and women’s rights. These are just issues that are very close to my heart, and I use my own private voice and funds to fight for them and in support of them.

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans – men and women – and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.

This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood has shown for both the safety of women and the rule of law.

An important part of my story is that I didn’t walk out of Planned Parenthood immediately after witnessing the ultrasound-guided abortion. It is made to appear that way in the film, ‘Unplanned,’ because they are trying to fit 10 years of my life into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.

Most of Planned Parenthood’s work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

I’m, like, the biggest fan ever of ‘Arrested Development.’ To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for ‘Parenthood.’

Millions of dollars, millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. This isn’t about babies; this is about money.

No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It’s not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted.

There is, I think, far too much guilt generally in society around parenthood, about whether or not you breastfeed or whether or not you bottle feed. We know the evidence is very strong in favour of breastfeeding and the benefits of that, but it shouldn’t mean we make people feel bad if they can’t do that for some reason.

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

Planned Parenthood doesn’t care about women’s health care needs; it cares about abortion.

Planned Parenthood is a very important part of my professional life.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

I will continue to be at the forefront, participating in rallies, marches, letter-writing campaigns, and fighting for federal funding for Planned Parenthood. And, I will always oppose the nomination of any anti-choice U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Planned Parenthood is a tough place to work – the hours are long, the work is emotionally draining, the paperwork is endless, and the morale can run low.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.

I encourage women who are starting families to think about the five-year horizon. The first few years of parenthood are really hard, but if you stick it out, it gets easier.

Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.

Craig T. Nelson, who played my grandfather on ‘Parenthood,’ gave me a lot of advice at the end of the show. I’m really insecure, and I get uncomfortable with things, and he gave me a lot of advice about that.

While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

‘Parenthood’ is a story about people’s lives – the title helps. Very early on during the show’s launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people’s interest.

Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power – women or men.

Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government.

One of the things I’m proud of at Planned Parenthood is the number of health centers providing trans care, which was largely driven by young activists.

I have many memories of my time with Planned Parenthood. I spent eight years of my life there. Some memories are good, some are not. But they are contained in my mind. It’s easy to forget them.

I think that the one thing about ‘Parenthood’ is that, while it’s never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it’s always been solid. We’ve always kept our audience.

Our Committee should be focusing on real priorities – improving health care, combating climate change, creating jobs and making products safer – not attacking Planned Parenthood and undermining women’s access to critical services.

Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.

‘Parenthood’ has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

I’m apparently attracted to things that are on the edge of what America really wants to watch: ‘Six Feet Under,’ ‘Sports Night,’ ‘Dirty Sexy Money,’ and ‘Parenthood’ were always struggling in the ratings. It was kind of heartbreaking not knowing if we get to come back every season.

It’s hard not to use cliches when talking about parenthood.

Fatherhood, parenthood, is something that completely overwhelms you and absorbs you, and you just have to be the best dad that you can be.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name – why didn’t he do this sooner? Why didn’t he see it coming? It’s the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

The stories in ‘Parenthood’ are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

Parenting is love, sure, but it’s as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.