Misha Collins Quotes

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.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

When you wake up one day and say, "You know what? I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready (to have children).

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

I think parenting is one of the most important jobs, because you can hit two or three generations with the values in your house and the traditions you establish. But I don't think I'm very good at it, and I don't know anybody who thinks they're very good at it. Probably almost everyone gets an A in grandparenting, but in parenting, if you get a B- you're doing pretty good.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

I do think that the role of the Internet, and the way it's bringing everything into the home, has made a parent's job much more difficult. And it's harder to know what to do and how to do it. It's much, much harder.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.