Taylor Dayne Quotes

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

Now I am just focusing on my daughter, my wife, religion, and training.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

I enjoy my family a lot. I have active teenagers, and they're in soccer and choral events.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

Time becomes more precious when you have children.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses.

I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

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 want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.

Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.