Mark Consuelos Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.

Fatherhood is great.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Having a son is not all pleasure.

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.'

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

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

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

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

It is always fragile, being a parent.

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

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

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.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

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

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