Lil Durk Quotes

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

My dad left when I was young. I didn't have a dad. I'm part of that divorced generation and didn't want to do that to my kids, so I took a year off and became a full-time dad, changed diapers and all that while my wife worked.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

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.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

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

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

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

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

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.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.