Jennifer Garner Quotes

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

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.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

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.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

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

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

Any parent who says parenting came easily to them is not being honest with themselves. Parenting is hard.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.

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.'

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

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

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.

If you bring a child into this world, whether it's planned or an accident, you'd better make sure you can care for it. You have to be around. You make time. It's as simple as that.

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.

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

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.