Gerard Way Quotes

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

It is not always possible or even right for a man to make his wife number one in his life. This is due to the nature of his life. His number one responsibility is to provide the living.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

I own frankly now that I am to engage, that what I may do may be reckoned and will be reckoned desperate. All appearances seem to be against me. Interest, prudence, and the obligations to you which I lie under, will prevent most people in my situation from taking a resolution that may probably end in my utter ruin. My life, my fortune, my expectations, the happiness of my wife and children are all at stake …, and yet a principle (what seems to me) honour, and my duty to King and Country, outweighs everything.

I thought about this time to be making preparations for leaving this place [the Contenental Congress], but none of my colleagues appearing to relieve me, several States being unrepresented in Congress, and affairs of the first magnitude being now on the tapis, I thought it inconsistent with my honor to leave the State unrepresented at so interesting a period. Notwithstanding my anxious impatience to return to my family, I have determined to stay till I am relieved, or at least till the States are more fully represented in Congress.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

My first and most important job is being a mommy.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.