Lorne Michaels Quotes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.

I'm happy I've stayed because Rome has become my home and an indelible part of my life, in an almost unreal way.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

When your baby smiles at you with their whole body, it's enough to make me fall down.

I think love is blind. You don't see it; you don't hear what people are saying or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.

Moms and dads don't last forever. If you've got unfinished business, we need to face that, and that's not easy. Every child wants to love their mother and their father. Love is the most important thing, and when they feel rejected and unloved, that hole can never be filled by anyone else.

You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.

My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.

I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There's something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who's tried and everybody who's wanted to reach that person - you're the only one who could do it.

I've never experienced the love I have for my daughter.

I love my children to death.

Basically, whenever I watch my mother on screen, I never judge her as a performer; I always see her as my mother and I become emotional.