Quotes About Family

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Being a parent is very important to me.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.