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

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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.

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.

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 folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

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

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

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

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

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.

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.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

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

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.

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

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

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.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I’ve had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

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.

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

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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

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

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!