Juergen Teller Quotes

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

Well fatherhood has been a joy, it's been a challenge and it certainly takes a lot of energy! You know, when I leave you start a whole new chapter of work when you come home and it really gives me a picture of what my Heavenly Father is like, looking at me.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

I want to be present for my kids, and my biological father wasn't present for me.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

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

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

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