Marcelene Cox Quotes

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

My children were the center of my life.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

Having a kid is hard to explain, but when you talk to another parent, you have mutual understanding of what that does to you as a person.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.