All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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.

Children always turn to the light.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

I give the children education.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.