Nicolas Cage Quotes

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.

My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.

My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

I'm thankful that my daughter's father has allowed me to do what I do because that really makes a difference. I do believe a woman can have it all.