Cindy McCain Quotes

My parents had an inter-reli'gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par'ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked to be. My father would have loved to be a man like that, and he surrounded himself with men like that, but he couldn't be.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I'm way more influenced by my children than I was by my parents.

I always remember my mom saying she wanted a son, so I basically filled that position, like, being outside and always having dirt underneath my nails. I was never afraid of getting dirty and grimy.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like. So when I came out to him, that did not fit into his plan of what raising twin boys was going to be like.

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

Every day is Father's Day to me when I'm with her: when I'll be able to hold my daughter and see her grow and see her smile. That's Father's Day to me every day.

My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.

I think my father couldn't wait to get home to his wife, but I don't know if he was so keen on us children.

I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.

Like with me, I just see my mum and dad as parents - I don't see my dad individually as a man, my mum individually as a woman.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

I've got a great husband who's very good with Orla - she's a real daddy's girl.

My life has been filled with beautiful memories of my father. You often hear people talk about 'daddy's girl.' Well, that was me.

There were times when our dad was awesomely good with us, but my biggest and most abiding memory is that he would look more to our faults than to our strengths.

Look, I've got a great dad.