Alyson Hannigan Quotes

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.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

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

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

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.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

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.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

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

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

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

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

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.