Esai Morales Quotes

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.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

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.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Parenthood is so wild in its ability to put a mirror directly in your face and force you to look at yourself long and hard. What a challenge this is, but also what an exhilarating gift.

My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.

'Abel' is about the father I don't want to be and the boy I used to be.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father. It was a real turning point for me because it helped me mature - it made me think about being responsible because I wasn't the only one I had to think about.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

My mom raised six kids on her own.

Fatherhood has changed my whole life.

I feel like I couldn't have screwed up that bad as a dad, because I have a pretty good relationship with both of my kids.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

People change naturally when they have children.

Sometimes I think I've been a bad father.

In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.