Will Grier Quotes

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing I've ever done but I'm loving it.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

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

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

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

No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

Let me tell you something, planes and kids... I've got a 3 and 1 year old, I don't wish that on anybody.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

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 you have.