Ridley Pearson Quotes

Our kids come first, and we really put them at the top of our priority list.

My kids come first on all measures.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about.

You help families focus on the future through their children.

What matters now is the well-being of our kids.

We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

I look at my kids and I feel I'm at the precipice of this job, like just kind of tipping over the other side. I'm very conscious of time I guess is what I want to say, and I want to be there as long as I can with my kids, and I also want to make sure I do all the things that are important to me.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.

I've always wanted to adopt kids ever since I was 16 years old. I always said I'm going to adopt, I'm going to adopt. There's too many kids in the world that need love and attention, I can give it to them.

When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents. It's not a humanitarian thing, because I don't see it as a sacrifice. It's a gift. We're all lucky to have each other.

[My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a parent. We feel pretty good when we hear back from friends, cause they still have sleepovers and they go to other folks houses and when the parents say, oh you know, Malia, she's just so sweet, or Sasha helped to pick up the dishes.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling.