Children are our most valuable natural resource.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

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

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

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.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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

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.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

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.

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.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

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

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I 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.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

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.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

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

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I 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.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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

My next baby will be my new record.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Children are all foreigners.

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.

My 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.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

It takes three to make a child.

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.