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

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!

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

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

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

I 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.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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

Tell the children the truth.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

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.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

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

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

‚Educational‘ refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.