Ben Carson Quotes

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

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

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

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.

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.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

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.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

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.

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

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

My children are the most important thing in my life.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

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

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

Fatherhood is great.