In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

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

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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.

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

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

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.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I do not raise brats!

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

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

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.

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

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

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.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Children make your life important.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Fortunately, 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.

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

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

I’m a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I’ll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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

My mother insisted that her children read.

My three children have brought me great joy.

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.

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.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.