K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Children always turn to the light.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Tell the children the truth.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.