Jon Voight Quotes

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

The wish to pass something on to your children is about the most basic, human and natural aspiration there is.

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

I wish my grandparents were around to see my children.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

I had pretty cool parents. Still do.

Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand.

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

I always knew I wanted a family because of the way I grew up. Family has always been the most important thing.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.