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.

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.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

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.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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.

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

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.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

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

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.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

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

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

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.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

It takes three to make a child.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

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.

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?

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

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.

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

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.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

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.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

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

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.