Steven Wright Quotes

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about 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.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I just love kids. I always have.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.

I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

My grandmother raised her nine kids and raised my mom's three.

I spend a lot of time at home with my kids.

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

I always remember what's the most important thing - my kids.

This time I particularly loved because it came from a real experience with my grandchildren. Having them alone alone for the first time for six or seven days and going "Wow, this is exhausting," because when you're not around little ones for a long time, you forget about how much work that is. So I came in and started writing the story that became this movie ['PARENTAL GUIDANCE'].

I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.

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

My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.