Quotes About Children

You have a kid and realize what's really important. It actually takes pressure off everything. Nothing will come before fatherhood for me, ever in my life.

Fatherhood is the best thing that ever happened to me.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

It's important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.

Here's something that's interesting if you look at basic metrics or numbers in this country - 71% of African-American men: no dad at home. No disciplinarian. Fathers are often the louder voice, the disciplinarian. Many of those kids don't grow up with a dad.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.'

My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.

My dad is a man that, for as long as I can remember, has kept a book of favorite things his kids say.

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

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?'

I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.

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

Children are fearless and honest, they are the best people to watch. There's no falseness.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Some of the top grossing movies now are children's animated features, they're making more money than action movies. And you'd never find a Hollywood A-lister years ago doing voice-overs for those films and they do now. You know why? Because everybody's got a price.

I got divorced on February 14, 2003, and got engaged on February 14, 2019. I have had relationships in between and my kids have liked every person that I have been with. But it is very different with Maneck - they adore him and want him in our lives forever.

Everyone wants their children to go to school, to have a job, a roof over their head, feed their children.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

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.