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

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

My three children have brought me great joy.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

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

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

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

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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

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.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

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

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

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

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

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

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Children are all foreigners.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

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.

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

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

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.