Sheri L. Dew Quotes

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

Fatherhood is great.

Because you give birth, because you impregnate someone, that does not automatically give you that title of mother or father. You earn the title.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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.

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

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your kids. And that's where most parents come from.

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.

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

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

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.

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.

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

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.

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

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

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

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

I'm the father of four daughters.

It doesn't matter if a child comes to you or through you. That love is still the same. You are still a mother.