Franz Kafka Quotes

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, … family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I'm the father of four daughters.

It takes a village to raise a child.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

Our crime has been: We married women instead of seducing them; we reared children instead of destroying them; we desired to exclude from the land prostitution, bastardy and infanticide.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.