Jules Verne Quotes

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

There's no doubt Matt Leinart loves his son very much.

I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I'm so close to him. He's my big brother, but also my father.

What my first son James did was allow me to care for something in this world when I couldn't care for myself. James saved my life.

Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved.

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.

I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.

I have two children - could I ever choose between them? Never. That's what 'Sophie's Choice' was about. If you have 50 children, you don't love one less.

You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.