Ludivine Sagnier Quotes

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

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.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Parenthood and having kids puts you in touch with a whole other sort of sensitivity which is nothing but good. You feel more than you ever felt. You feel that vulnerability, but at the same time you wouldn't trade it for anything.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

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.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.