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

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

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.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

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

He 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.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

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.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

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

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.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

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 love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.