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

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

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.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

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 just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

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.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

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.

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

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

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

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.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

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

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

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.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

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

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

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

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

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.

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.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.