If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

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.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

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

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

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

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.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

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.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

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.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

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

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

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

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

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

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.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

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