Laurence Fox Quotes

Sometimes it can be more tiring with the kids than on the bike but I'm absolutely loving it.

Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

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.

Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

Usually I'm too tired to apologize.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'

People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they'll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something to happen to them, even when I'm not responsible for them - that God will punish me.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.