Dale Evans Quotes

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about your own life.

Angelina and Brad have shown me that caring for children is the greatest gift in the world.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace -- that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that’s what matters. We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

I'm a hands-on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It's very important to me. I'd give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

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

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.