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

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

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.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Children are all foreigners.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

In the real world, children love me.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

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.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

Children make your life important.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Physical contact is a human necessity.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.