Marianne Williamson Quotes

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

I am a product of my father's work.

When you have your own kid, it suddenly makes you more aware of how your parents treated you and educated you. Your relationships with your partner, your uncles, your mother all change; you're more conscious of where you came from, of where your roots are. I find that very interesting.

When I go out, a lot of people and their tiny tots call me Tiger Shroff's daddy.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

We live inside our parents' backstory.

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.