Floor Jansen Quotes

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

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

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

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

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

What happens is when you have a kid, you are a unique human being, so you are going to have a unique experience. No one can really tell you what youre going to feel.

I personally don't resent having my children.

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

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.

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

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

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

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.