Suranne Jones Quotes

I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

I think Australia is just a great place to bring up a family.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

I love kids, outings, camping, sports, Legoland, all the Daddy stuff. I love it. I wish I could just do that, but I have to work, too.

Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living.

My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life.

I always wanted to be a dad.

I'm just a regular 24/7 dad now.

Parenting definitely has some challenging moments.

Kids - young men find it uncool to be a dad, I think. It's very cool to me... I love being at home with my kids.

At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.

I am a family man, and I have children.

Mahesh is a hands-on father, though he does not have too much free time because of his work. But whenever we can, we take short breaks and vacations and spend time together.

On weekends, I'm chasing my six-year-old girls around the city. That's my cardio!

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.