Frank Iero Quotes

~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.

I knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

I'm on stage 13. I'm at that can't-be-replaced stage. The transformation I've been through personally with my wife is amazing, but having two girls and a boy, man, that's the painful stuff.

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.

My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.