If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

I mean, families are weird.

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

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

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 sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.

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

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

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

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.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

I think hygiene is so important.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.