Quotes About Growth

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

I always appreciated that connection between a parent and a kid because I yearned for it so much. Growing up, I wanted a father, and because I've had this idea of what a father should be, it's exciting to finally have the opportunity to try and be that guy, to see if I can actually do it.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

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

A lot of my friends in my student days complained about how their parents made them play an instrument when they were kids. I always felt compassion for them and didn't believe a parent could be so cruel, but when I check today, those complaining friends grew up to be quite successful, and many of them are now making their children play.

Ever since I became a parent, time moves far too quickly. My vision always feels like I'm wearing giant kaleidoscope-goggles.