Jeff Nichols Quotes

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

If you have kids, you feel everything stronger. It's like someone turning the lights on in your inner room.

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.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.