Tom Morello Quotes

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

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Our first priority is our kids.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

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.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.

We don’t want a village to raise a child. We want a family.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.

All I think about is my son, my family, and my future family.

When you have kids, you see what's important.

Being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

Hiring someone to look after your children is about the most important thing you will ever do in your life.

I am a family man, and I have children.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

My first priority is definitely the kids.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.