The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

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.

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

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

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 don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

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.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Tell the children the truth.

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

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

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

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

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

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

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

My next baby will be my new record.

My mother did not like children.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

Children make your life important.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

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