We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthurThe difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.
Michelle ObamaThe kids are a big part of my schedule.
Bill GatesI like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel OsteenMy husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly PartonTrain up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King SolomonI have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.
Emily DickinsonScience and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
Thich Nhat HanhAcorns were good until bread was found.
Francis BaconEducation commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea BallouIf you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard ShawTo make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John RuskinExercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
Henry FordOur need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.
Brene BrownMy mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Richard BransonThe only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.
Conor McGregorIt would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Karl LagerfeldHe didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John LennonA two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
Jerry SeinfeldI just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.
Mark ZuckerbergI always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Vivienne WestwoodThere was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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.
Stephen CurryAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya AngelouCycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
David ByrneAs a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.
Dwayne JohnsonI go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.
Adam SandlerThose who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
AristotleWe cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul SartreA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamMy parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
Joel OsteenWithout exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.
Matthew McConaugheyI think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.
Abby Lee MillerFrom the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.
Conor McGregorI’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.
Vivienne WestwoodWhoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich NietzscheI think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.
Billy GrahamNutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.
Dwayne JohnsonTo lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin FranklinAn army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon BonaparteAlways kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.
Richard BransonMy son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.
Kevin HartSleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.
Tom BradyKids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.
Michelle ObamaI don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.
David BowieIf a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
George Bernard ShawBeing a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.
Jocko WillinkPlumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.
Robert GreeneI have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.
Abby Lee MillerI’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.
EminemI take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.
Angelina JolieEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace ThackerayI can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.
Michelle ObamaMy movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.
Elvis PresleyI 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.
Bill GatesTyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka