Eugene Mirman Quotes

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

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.

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having kids... trying to be a father, at least. It's an amazing process. It's like songwriting: it's a complete mystery to me. I don't understand it - but I've certainly written about it.

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

There's some people that are 24 hours with the baby and it doesn't make a difference. They could be anywhere.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

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

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.