Jane Goodall Quotes

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.

All my children are blessings. I love them to bits. They're my world.

My son - oh man, I think, every year, I'm getting 25 to 30 minutes of material from talking about him. He just keeps growing.

A lot of people don't post about their kids or do anything. With us, we are so proud and so blessed to have our children, and we also know how happy we are, that I feel like we would love to share it. We are not trying to exploit anything in any way; honestly, I am just proud of my kids and just happy to have them.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Fathers should speak with their children.

Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.