Marco Pierre White Quotes

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

The strength it takes to love, mold, and nurture a child should be honored every single day.

I do think that there's an art form to parenting, and I have nothing but admiration for those who do it well.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

What keeps me going is my children.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.