Adam Sandler Quotes

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

By being with my kids. I'm like a lion who hunts and comes home to be looked after and sleep. I think girls tend to be drawn towards their dad. I'd love to have a son, but I have three kids who are great - three geezer birds and that's all I need to worry about.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

It would be incredible to be a dad and raise a family.

And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Some of our kids are adopted and some kids are natural-born - I forget which ones are which. Family's just amazing. We think that of everything that we could do in the world... if you don't take care of your family and raise your kids, you lose.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.