Jenny Holzer Quotes

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he's still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Ordinarily, I'd claim that I'd never write directly about my children, but the opening conversation of 'Peter Elroy' is a verbatim conversation that my children had that I just loved: morbid, funny, passionate, and obsessed with the truth of things - all natural qualities of children that I'd like my work to contain.

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

There's a reason why young people think what they think. They are taught it. In many cases when they learn at home is erased or countered or overcome.

I'm just honored that some of my little contributions I've written with my daughter are doing well.

I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.