Albert Finney Quotes

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.'

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

My children were the center of my life.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

It's unconditional love with your kids.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

Bringing up a child in a loving relationship is the most important thing.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.