Jamie Parker Quotes

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

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

Being a father taught me patience. And it taught me vulnerability. You don't realize how vulnerable you are when you love something else more far more than yourself.

My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it's unfortunate.

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.