Parental Pride Quotes

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

In my 40s: I had two children young enough to think their parents wonderful, my business was booming, I was happily married and living in the Cotswolds with a veg garden and ponies in the paddock. Who could not be happy?

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

When I found out I'd won Book of the Year, the first person I called was my mum, who was so happy she cried on the phone. I did a bit too to be honest.

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.

When I became a father, I think that my understanding of what love was and my connection to that emotion shifted. I saw my children being born and recognizing what they call a miracle.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

I am very happy to say I look just like my dad. But mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.

When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

Two of my dramas, 'Unforgotten' and 'River,' were airing at the same time, and Dad had read about my 'success' in a newspaper - he thought it was brilliant. I was thinking, 'Does this mean I'm going to be put in a box for a bit now?'

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.

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

When you have a child, as anyone knows who has them, that's basically all you want to talk about.

I adore my girls and I'm so proud of them. So proud to be their mama.

I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a little darker than they were used to, or really introspective in a way that may have been uncomfortable. I thought they'd retaliate with some kind of judgment or concern about whether I was feeling all right, but they were proud of it.