Chris Rea Quotes

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

I want to have a family. Fighting and having a family at the same time is difficult.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

It's harder to take care of kids than it is to make a movie.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.