Robert Rodriguez Quotes

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it?

I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

I think I'll just become a full-time dad, at home, with my family.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-siblings, the youngest of whom is 11 years younger than me, so I think I learned some pretty cool parenting skills quite early on in life.

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.