Ray J Quotes

When I first knew I was having children, I thought I wanted boys, but then I thought I'd be better with girls. I'm quite sensitive, and you get more cuddles with girls. And they like their dads.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

Even though I would love a little girl for me, personally, I love being a mom to boys.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

What having a child - and especially a daughter - has done is lifted more of the veil for me: allowed me to see things on another level compared to how I used to see them.

I would definitely love 20 more sons. The mother-son connection is pretty incredible.

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

I knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

Fatherhood is everything I wanted it to be and more. It's an unbelievable experience.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.