Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

Democrats never agree on anything, that’s why they’re Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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?‘

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

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

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

I think hygiene is so important.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

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

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

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.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.