Dan Savage Quotes

Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

I constantly looked for motherly protection.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

The important things for me are stability, consistency and love, and I have that through my family, so that's a great place to be.

My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

I know something about life and being a father and the worries and the fears of bringing up children.

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.

But when they needed love or help or had a problem of any kind, they could always go to Roselle because she was always there for them. That was not always the case with me.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your parents love you. Of course Mrs. Hubert across the street loves you and your godmother loves you and your grandparents love you.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.