Curtis Jackson Quotes

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

I would like to understand my father.

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.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I thought that having a son would make me grow up when it came to my TV viewing habits, but I love The Bachelor even more after having a child.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

A father's holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.

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

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.