Rob Reiner Quotes

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

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

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

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.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

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

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.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

My parents did a great job.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

Fatherhood is great.

Every child needs both parents.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.