Thom Yorke Quotes

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.

I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her.

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

Having an infant is stressful, and I know I won't get a lot of sleep initially, but it will be worth it.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate.

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

I don't like waking up. I feel like staying in bed usually, but I can't because I've got two kids standing next to my bed, just eager to live another day.

You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious — I am responsible for two people now.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.

You become responsible for a human being, and a lot of people talk about how they've never felt love like this before. You hear all these things before you have a child, and they're all kind of true. It's just dealing with the overwhelming responsibility of like I'm the protector of this child that affected me the most.

Now it's not D.T.F., It's now, diapers, tantrums and formula.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.

Parenthood is a school for humility. We can't choose the precise traits of our children, and that is morally important. It teaches us what William May, a theologian whom I greatly admire, calls "an openness to the unbidden."

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.