Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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

I love being a dad. I just love it.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

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

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

I’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.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

My mom and I are very close.

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.

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

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

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

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

I 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.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

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

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

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.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.