Nicole Richie Quotes

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.

I want to have an impact on my son.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

As a father, you want to protect, but I also want to prepare her for when she grows up, so I want to be a great example as a dad.

I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.

I feel like I'm going to be like the ghetto 'Gilmore Girls' because I feel like this child is going to be more mature than I am because just look at me!

It's the best feeling in life, when you see a little human, and they look to you, to learn something in life. It's a responsibility, but it's the best feeling in life.