Kerri Walsh Quotes

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

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.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

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.

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.

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

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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

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.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

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

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.

You learn that, when your children are all right, everything is right in the world.

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.

In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all jobs: forget your chief executives, editors, prime ministers and the like - parenting is far more challenging.

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

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.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better 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 have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

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