Cory Hardrict Quotes

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

The fact that I have had so much time to be a dad and to be around my children is brilliant.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

Fathers should speak with their children.

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

Dad literally carried me around the world with him through the early years of my life.

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

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

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.