I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

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.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

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.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

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

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

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.

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.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Don’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.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

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

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.