Leslie Jordan Quotes

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

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

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to make the commitment.

If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.

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.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

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.