Quotes About Reflection

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

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

As I've gotten older, I've come to grips that the unexamined life is what works for most people. Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends, and live a good life. And for them that's great.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

As a parent, you go through a whole lot of really tough things, and you kind of want other parents to experience those tough things as payback - especially when it's your brother.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

When you experience parenthood, it makes you look at the other side as well.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it's because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

What people ought to do is find out what a national park is to begin with.

I know as a director I hit it out of the park sometimes, and sometimes we haven't, and that's kind of the way art goes. You just have to be willing to take the 'failures' and learn from them, make the best of them.

When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.

Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.