I 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.

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.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

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

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

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

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

My 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.

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

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

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

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?

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

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

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.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

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

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

I 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.

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

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.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

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

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I can dance to just about anything.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

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