Nicole Maines Quotes

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.

What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.

I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.

The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.

When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was me being a mother, with my mum showing me how to do things.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

When you have a little 10-month-old who is climbing up your leg because you are their mountain - there's no nobler reason to get out of bed every day. There's no better reason to live, to make sure you provide as much guidance and as much room for that child to thrive.

I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me.

I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.