Gregory David Roberts Quotes

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

There's no doubt Matt Leinart loves his son very much.

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.

I definitely do want a family. The idea of being a father and providing the type of love, guidance and support that my parents have given me is definitely down the road.

My children were the center of my life.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

I love my kids beyond anything.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.