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

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

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.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.

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

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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?

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

My mother did not like children.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I mean, families are weird.

Going home helps the content.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.