"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent." - Marcelene CoxTweet
"I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived." - Eddie VedderTweet
"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity." - Roberto BenigniTweet
"My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?" - Robbie ColtraineTweet
"I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that." - Mayim BialikTweet
"I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze." - Tori SpellingTweet
"Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids." - Clive OwenTweet
"My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything." - Isabelle HuppertTweet
"I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older." - Eric McCormackTweet
"I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting." - Barbara BushTweet