Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

One 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.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

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.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

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.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

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

Age merely shows what children we remain.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

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

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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

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.‘

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.

Children make your life important.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.