Parenting Quotes

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.