Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

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

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

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.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

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

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

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

There 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.

Feels 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.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

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

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.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

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.

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.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I do not raise brats!

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

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

Everything 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.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

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

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 was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

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

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

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

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

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.