Rivers Cuomo Quotes

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

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

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.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

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

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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.

When you're a parent, you're automatically the most uncool person that exists.

Fatherhood is great.

So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

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.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

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

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'