Quotes About Parenting

They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'

Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on different days.

When a parent has two children, it is difficult to pick one favourite.

I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.

I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.

There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.

We eat really well. It is my job, as their mother, our job as parents, to feed them well so that they're healthy so that they are very well behaved.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

Listen to me carefully: My father wasn't in my life, but it feels good taking care of my kids.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

I feel like dads should come more into their feminine side.

It was actually having a son made me think about feminism.

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

My kids that are grown up, in their 20s, they all go to festivals. They have to behave, though. When it comes to things like that it's do as I say, not do as I do.

Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.

Just when you think you've got your kids figured out, they change on you. For somebody who's controlling, you can't control it. Of course, I don't think I'm controlling, but that's what I've been told!

You can't control babies, they aren't robots and we don't have them all figured out.

My father is my hero, my mother is a saint, and I want to fill those shoes and I want to be a father for somebody else.

My dad got into the film industry around the time I was born.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.