Quotes About Family

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.

I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

As a parent, I know how difficult it can be to encourage your kids to eat well.

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

Like every parent, I cannot rest easy until my children are home safe at night.

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

It's an advantage to have two parents, but to have one parent to stay closely connected and at home during those early years of education can be very very important.

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play.

Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

Millions of cats are in shelters across the country waiting for a loving parent or family to bring them home.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.