How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

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

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

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.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I 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.

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

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

My next baby will be my new record.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

I do not raise brats!

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Children make your life important.

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

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

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

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.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘