Helen Andelin Quotes

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

I've got to do what I've got to do, for me, my family and my kids.

Family's number one; just, that's flat out it, and I think a lot of people, when they're put in a certain position, will come to that conclusion, and you'll just do whatever.

You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.

I cannot just do things without thinking. I have a wife and daughter to think of at all times now.

I have dedicated myself to development of the state and hardly get time to spend with my family.

When you have children your life - this is my job and that's my life. So it's a totally different thing. They're my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.

I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

I'm a mom first.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

When I joined the Mumfords I made a commitment to them so they'll always come first. But I'm a bit of a workaholic and Communion helps me get a grip on dealing with my life.

I thought about this time to be making preparations for leaving this place [the Contenental Congress], but none of my colleagues appearing to relieve me, several States being unrepresented in Congress, and affairs of the first magnitude being now on the tapis, I thought it inconsistent with my honor to leave the State unrepresented at so interesting a period. Notwithstanding my anxious impatience to return to my family, I have determined to stay till I am relieved, or at least till the States are more fully represented in Congress.

I am an actor, but my most important job is provider of my family.