Joe Morton Quotes

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

I want to have an impact on my son.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

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

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

Parenting is perhaps the most important job we have in our lives.

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

A mother plays a very important role in every child's life.

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!

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.