Parental Identity Quotes

It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

I'm basically like a dad; I've always been a dad.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.

Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

I am Mr. McMahon's son. I always had a feeling that it was me. Now that it's been confirmed I could not be happier!

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

I don't know who my dad is.

My kids are blissfully unaware of anything I do. I asked my four-year-old, Harrison, what I did, and he said, 'You're an electrician.' He must have seen me changing a lightbulb.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

I would have loved to have had a gay dad. At school, there were always kids saying 'my dad is bigger than your dad, my dad will batter your dad!' So what? My dad will shag your dad..and your dad will enjoy it.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.

I'm not a single mum, I am just a mum.

You cannot be a famous human being to your children.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge just above the groin, slightly double-chinned. Perpetually forty. Someone's mother, you think. There is a child somewhere who has made this woman into a mother, and for the sake of the child she has altered her appearance to better play the part.