Jim Cummings Quotes

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

On her daughters: I have a 5 year old and I have a 1 year old.

I'm the father of four daughters.

I am anyway acting all the time with my bacche log (kids), so I do not miss it at all!

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I have 'Parents' magazine in my home.

My children are grown now, they are more independent.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

I cannot live without children.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I've got 11 brothers and sisters.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.