Grace Paley Quotes

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

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

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

I write about families. That is who we are.

Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.

I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.

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

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

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.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

My priority as a father should always remain first. My kids look to me as their example. Every decision I make and everything that I do always has to come back to the question, "Does this make me a better father?" "Will my kids benefit from this?" It's no longer just about me…but about my kids. My perspective in life has changed.