Gavin O'Connor Quotes

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

I would not have guessed how much I love being a father.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

It's unconditional love with your kids.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

I love my parents. I did love them. It's complicated.

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came out. I held him. He was my kid.

Fatherhood is great.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

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.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

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.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,' I certainly can identify with being both a daughter longing for her mother and being a mother who is almost scared by the intensity of her love for her daughter.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.