A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Those 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.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

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

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 go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

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

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

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.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.