Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

You don’t punish a child for what his parents did.

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I’m the parent and you’re the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesn’t mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them.

I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly. Having a child who'll be loved, to parents who love each other, is the important thing.

When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.