Alan King Quotes

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

Fatherhood didn't just happen to me. I am deliberately living it, re-imagining it, and rediscovering it every day. It is as beautiful as I make it, just like anything else in life.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.