Irvine Welsh Quotes

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

We all want to raise our children well.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

I just feel that if you're going to have kids, you need to believe that, emotionally, you can give them a really good life.

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I'm a hands-on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It's very important to me. I'd give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.

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

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

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

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

Yes, it's hard to stay in shape, but it's also hard to raise kids. That doesn't mean you get to drop them off at your local fire station when they get to be a handful.