Scott Simon Quotes

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

I didn't always want to be a dad.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

When I became a mother, my life completely changed.

One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father.

Now, to be a father, that changes everything.

I am a family man, and I have children.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

Being a Mum is a big job.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.