Sarah Shahi Quotes

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

As a kid, there was not much I could do to stop the violence in our home. When I got older, as a father, I did everything I could to raise my children with a father that loved them, protected them, and made them feel safe.

On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.

I'm the father of four daughters.

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

I don't really want to get married. I've got my career, my friends - my life is very, very full. It's nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn't rush into anything because I don't think it's right to bring another man into the house with my four children.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

When you become a father, everything changes.

That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.

My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.

I don't want to constantly berate my father - I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace - but he put my mom through years of mental abuse, and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children.

I'm a parent, I gotta be a super dad.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.