Brian Herbert Quotes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

I want to have an impact on my son.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

… the idea that children have rights they can claim against their parents, rather than obligations, seems to strike at the heart of the most valued social institution of all, the family.

I personally would love to see Harold and Kumar with children. I think that would be hilarious.

If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.