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

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

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

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

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.

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.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

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.

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.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

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

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

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

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

My three children have brought me great joy.

It takes three to make a child.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

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

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

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

I teach children to be winners.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.