Bill Burr Quotes

It is always fragile, being a parent.

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

I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

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.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

Fatherhood is great.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

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

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.

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

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.