Jimmy Barnes Quotes

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

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

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

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

Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don't always get things right. And also, you don't want to be a perfect parent... You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection.

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

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

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.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

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.

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

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

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.

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

As a parent, when I fail to listen to my kids, when our kids stop bringing us our problems, we have all failed as parents and as leaders.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

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

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.

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

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.