Jon Hamm Quotes

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

I try to be as calm and as reassuring and a rock to my daughter as I possibly can be. I try to teach her everything that I never knew when I was her age, and I try to give her all the advantages and the things that I didn't have when I was her age.

My parents have been very supportive. To survive in this industry, you need a great support system, and I am really blessed to have one.

I wish there were people who gave me roles like my dad did.

Throughout my life, my mom, my dad, my grandmother - these were people who made sure that I had the right people around me uplifting me.

Kids grow up, and they still need you.

Obviously my parents have been a massive influence on me my whole career, taking me around everywhere and putting me in this position.

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

My parents are my role models. All they've done for me, they're just major people in my life. They've stood by me and got me where I am today.

My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.

My friends will help me stay grounded, and so will my family.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.