Jamal Lewis Quotes

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.

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

I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.

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 last people on earth who ought to have children.

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

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 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.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

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

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.

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.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

There's no vacation from being a parent.

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

I always tried to do the best for my kid.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

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.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

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