I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘
Erma BombeckI 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!
Taylor SwiftI do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. BushIt wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
Michelle ObamaI sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
Adam SandlerThe 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.
Alice MunroIf you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian TracyI don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.
Angelina JolieNever fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard ShawMy parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.
Joel OsteenI love being a dad. I just love it.
Jerry SeinfeldI 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.
Abby Lee MillerHistorically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen CoveyYou definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.
Kevin HartKids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.
Michelle ObamaIf you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
Noam ChomskyI always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.
Mr. TPlumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.
Robert GreeneMy mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
Alice WalkerMy son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.
David BowieI do not raise brats!
Abby Lee MillerI 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.
Angelina JolieWomen will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader GinsburgOne thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
Erma BombeckYour children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Wayne DyerWe need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack ObamaThe kids are a big part of my schedule.
Bill GatesToo many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.
John KennedySomeday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn MonroeI had my first baby at twenty-one.
Alice MunroWhen I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle ObamaMost women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Erma BombeckI 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.
Joe BidenHe didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John LennonThe unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph AddisonBeing 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.
Jocko WillinkDon’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.
Joyce MeyerHow sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William ShakespeareOur need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.
Brene BrownI’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.
Dolly PartonI 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.
Abby Lee MillerNo mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald ReaganThe 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.
Billy GrahamMy 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.
Cristiano RonaldoWho in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma BombeckAs a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
Michelle ObamaThe 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.
Michelle ObamaClearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle ObamaI understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
Dan QuayleYou bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.
Alice WalkerMy three children have brought me great joy.
Stephen HawkingI’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.
Vivienne WestwoodI look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.
Michelle ObamaI 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.
Angelina JolieIt goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma BombeckI always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne DyerIf I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
Maya AngelouMy whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.
Angelina JolieThe uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
Brene BrownLive so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.