Adrian Tomine Quotes

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Brielle is my first born; I had her so young that we basically grew up together!

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

When Chynna was born, the first thing I said when they placed her in my arms was, 'I'm going to have so much fun with this little girl.' And I have. I've tried to guide her, make her life happy, and just let her prepare for life.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

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.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.