The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

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

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

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

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

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.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

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

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

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

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

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.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

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

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

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.

My mother did not like children.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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

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.

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

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

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.

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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

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

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

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.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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.

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

I do not raise brats!

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

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.