Michael Redhill Quotes

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

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

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

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

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.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

Fatherhood is great.

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

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.

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

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.

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

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

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

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.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.