Naveen Andrews Quotes

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

Nobody wants to be a bad parent.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

America needs more fathers taking an active role in their children's lives.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

I always knew I wanted to have children. When I met my husband, Rande, I thought, 'This is the guy.' When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.