Hailey Gates Quotes

My daughter gets to paint my nails and put clips in my hair, and I love it.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.

My father, Prince Aly Khan, and mother divorced when I was only 3. I used to spend summers with him in the South of France.

My daughter does not travel with me. She has a much more stress-free life at home with her daddy.

I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me.

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

In 1965, I was 11 and in my last year at Junior school. I was living with my mum and older sister in a rented flat in south London - my parents had separated when I was five and got divorced a couple of years later, which was unusual at the time. My dad was working abroad, and I hadn't seen him for several years.

I'm encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children.

My first experience with the arts must have been the sound of my mother singing to me when I was in the womb. The sound of my father singing to me when he held me. The sound of The Temptations records that they played.

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, born and raised. It was hard. I stayed with my momma, then I ended up moving with my daddy.

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It's something I've done with my children since they were born.

I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.

I want to spend more time with my two daughters.