Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

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

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about your own parents. You know, who were they?

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

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

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.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

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

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

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

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

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

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

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

It is always fragile, being a parent.

Different parents have different standards for their children.