Dwyane Wade Quotes

For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

My daughter is 12 weeks old and I've been in a training camp for 10 weeks. So I haven't held her properly and been out pushing the pram, doing the little things. But when I'm slugging it out and things are getting tough I just think, 'everything is for the kids.'

A mother does a thankless job; they take care of their children unconditionally.

Everything I do revolves around my children.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

My children are my whole life.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

There's nothing more important in my life than my son.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

Angelina and Brad have shown me that caring for children is the greatest gift in the world.

As a parent, I understand that on an individual level parents would do anything for their child.

Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all the time, though it's a silly thing to think about because the kind of mother I'll be depends on the kind of children I have. I can't wait to meet them.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I never understood when people would say, 'I would die for my child,' but you become so selfless.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

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.