Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Quotes

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

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

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

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

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

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.

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

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

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

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.

Fatherhood is a process you can't really express.

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

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

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.

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.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

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

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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.

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

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.