Carolyn Murphy Quotes

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

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

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.

My daughter is 12 weeks old and I've been in a training camp for 10 weeks. So I haven't held her properly and been out pushing the pram, doing the little things. But when I'm slugging it out and things are getting tough I just think, 'everything is for the kids.'

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

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

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.

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

You see things through a different lens when you have a child.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

All I think about is my son, my family, and my future family.

When you have kids, you see what's important.

There's nothing more important in my life than my son.

When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.