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

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

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

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.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

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.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

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

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

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

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

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.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

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.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

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.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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.

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

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

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.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

I don’t have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.