Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Whatever you want your child to learn, you have to model that every day. There's no more waiting around. Once you have a child, there's no dress rehearsal anymore.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

Being a parent is very important to me.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

I, as a mom, wanted to be really present for my son in the first couple of years, because I know that those years are very important for a kid. So I decided not to work during that period.

I will only do family-friendly films or television. They don't have to necessarily be Christian films, but I want to be in things that I'm comfortable having my children and husband watch. They come first in my life, not the film industry.

To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

So I do make a real effort that all of my videos are things that, if I had kids, I wouldn't mind them watching.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!

I don't curse in front of my daughter. Well, sometimes.

I think it's more important to pray for my son than go out with my friends drinking at a bar until midnight while he waits for me to come home.