Parental Commitment Quotes

Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accurate internal clock. Possibly even 2 minutes would be okay. Three minutes, even. You could go to five minutes, perhaps. But that was just it. If you could go for five minutes, then you'd go to ten, then half an hour, a couple of hours...and not see your son all evening. So that was that. Six o'clock, prompt. Every day. Read to young Sam. No excuses. He'd promised himself that. No excuses. No excuses at all. Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

You can go in and out of love and still love somebody, you know? You may not like them so much on the day, but I can tell you that I don't think I've ever been so vulnerable or been so angry in my life - like, those two emotions feel so hurt or so enraged - as when you're dealing with your kids.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Let me be clear: All I really care about is my kids know that their parents love them.

I personally don't resent having my children.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

My children are my priority and always have been.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

My kids come first on all measures.

Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.