Adam Sandler Quotes

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.

If you question your thoughts about when your son is not healthy, you come to see that you're the only one you're worried about. It's like without him, you're not happy - so it's all about your happiness. You want him to live for you - for your happiness.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

When you're a parent, your child's health is your number one concern, and to get the news that your child has diseases or is unhealthy, I'm sure, is absolutely crushing.

I think any parent can imagine how difficult it would be to watch your child suffer.

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.

I can’t think. I can’t work or sleep. My body aches for you. I can make you want me again. Let me try.

I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there's also that fear, 'Oh, I don't want to be like my father,' or, 'I hope my kid doesn't turn out like me.' You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.