Assumptions Quote by Tony Shalhoub

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

— Russell Crowe

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own…

— Cobie Smulders

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to…

— Joanne Harris

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her,…

— Jodi Picoult

I think as a parent, I made a choice to bring life into the world and they picked me to be their father, so…

— Greg Vaughan

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want…

— Spike Jonze

I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else.…

— Maksim Chmerkovskiy

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a…

— Chris Sullivan

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

— Kate Middleton

I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had been married…

— Lesley Sharp

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.

— Nia Long