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

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

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.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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

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.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

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

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

My mother did not like children.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

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

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

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?‘

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

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

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

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

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.