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

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

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

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.

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.

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

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

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

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

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.

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

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

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

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

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

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

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.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

The 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.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Brad 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.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

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.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

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.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

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

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

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