Russell Peters Quotes

I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

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

There's one person that you would give up your life for, and that's your child.

I am a mother first. I will always be a mother, and I would die for my kids if need be.

I love my kids more than anything. I love them more than me in some ways.

Nothing outside of my child is important.

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

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

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

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

My sons have such a deep access to my heart.

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

Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.

There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter.

Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet.

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

It changes everything, absolutely everything. The love you feel for your child transforms everything. Now you have someone helpless and tiny that depends on you and only you. You look at him and know that your world is focused on him, on that part of you.

In my house, my mother is my superhero.

I have a four-year-old son, and he is the most important thing in the world to me.