Elizabeth Smart Quotes

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

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 personally don't resent having my 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.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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 think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

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.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

What keeps me going is my children.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.