Children Quotes

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It’s a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It’s just what it is right now, but I go through phases.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn’t have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.