Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

My son's my number-one priority.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

I've always been way closer to my mom. I'm close to my dad, but they're totally different kinds of relationships.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

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.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

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.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

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

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.