When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

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.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

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

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

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.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

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.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

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

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

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.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

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

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

My three children have brought me great joy.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

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.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

My mother insisted that her children read.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

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