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

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

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Children make your life important.

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.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

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

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.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Children are all foreigners.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I really like children to watch my movies.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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.

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

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

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

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I 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.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

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

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.