Greg Rucka Quotes

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.

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

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

It is always fragile, being a parent.

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

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

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

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

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

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.