Nate Parker Quotes

I helped my mom raise so many little sisters. At 11, I was helping get them ready for school, watching over them, putting them to sleep. It's just naturally with me.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

What I do, it's part of my job, but you want to bring your kids up the right way and give them everything - to be there for them and have that connection.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.