I do not raise brats!

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Being 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.

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.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

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?

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

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.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

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.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

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

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

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.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

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

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

My mother did not like children.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

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.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘