Marco Pierre White Quotes

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

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.

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

One of the biggest lessons I've learnt is patience. It's critical when raising a child.

I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

Taking care of children was not something I was good at.

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

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.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

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

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.