The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

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

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

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

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

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

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.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

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

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.‘

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.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

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

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

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

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.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

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

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

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.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

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.

My three children have brought me great joy.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

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

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.

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

I do not raise brats!

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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.

Children make your life important.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

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

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Once you have six children, you’re committed.