The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark TwainIt is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
Jackie ChanBe careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
EpictetusThe mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.
Eleanor RooseveltIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard ShawI didn’t have any children of my own.
Abby Lee MillerI listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.
Mr. TUpon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
Herbert HooverThe influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
Billy GrahamFortunately, 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.
Michelle ObamaJohn D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.
Robert KiyosakiThere is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret ThatcherWe care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.
Angelina JolieMy sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.
Adam SandlerMy mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.
Huey NewtonEvery man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. MenckenI love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
Lady GagaEvery man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
Marcus Tullius CiceroStrike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen KellerMy parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.
J. ColeNever have more children than you have car windows.
Erma BombeckMy 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.
Brene BrownWhen I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
Wayne DyerI 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.
Billy GrahamGrowing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
Maya AngelouYour children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Wayne DyerWhen I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.
Paul AusterWithout Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.
Angelina Jolie‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!
Taylor SwiftMy own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.
Wayne DyerBrad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
Angelina JolieWhen Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.
Dave GrohlFreedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
Herbert HooverMy dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.
Robert KiyosakiThat’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?
Terry PratchettEverything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.
Angelina JolieYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussKids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.
Adam SandlerI believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Joyce MeyerMy dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
Jim CarreyFeels 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.
Adam SandlerTo rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.
Russell M. NelsonMy 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.
Bruno MarsLove begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Mother TeresaMy parents weren’t actors or studio executives.
Dwayne JohnsonThere are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
J. Robert OppenheimerAll parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.
Tom BradyI feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
The WeekndCounsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.
Russell M. NelsonIf something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.
Angelina JolieMy whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.
Matthew McConaugheyI was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
Narendra ModiI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingChildren have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
Dolly PartonA Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. MenckenSee, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
Joel OsteenMy father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.
Anthony HopkinsSurely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
Russell M. NelsonI like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.
Michelle ObamaNeither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
Terry Pratchett