Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or not. And indeed, all women I know play that role for somebody - like it or not.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

I always felt like there wasn't a blueprint for father-daughter relationships - for them or for us. Because what are they supposed to do with us, treat us like boys, or small women, or what? Father-daughter relationships are so unique from family to family, and I'd love to watch it explored more onstage.

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'

It's unconditional love with your kids.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.