Thomas Paine Quotes

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

I went through pain as a child so my children wouldn't have to.

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

You do things for your kids you won't do for yourself.

I think that, being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.

Fostering is the most worthwhile and selfless act of love you can ever imagine. The children will teach you so much about your own life.

My family has sacrificed a lot.

I would die for my kids. I love my kids - they're my life - and I love them more than anything I've ever known.

I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

The hardest part about this business is being away from the kids. But what I hope to teach him - and what I hope to teach all kids that are kind of looking at this - is that to achieve anything, it takes a lot of sacrifice.

You'll do anything for your child and that's what I'm doing.

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.