Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. ...
Robbie Coltrane
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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. ...
Bob Filner
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ...
Carl Jung
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Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. ...
Todd Tiahrt
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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. ...
Russell Baker
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ...
Charles R. Swindoll
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Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. ...
Ron Taffel
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Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy. ...
Liam Neeson
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Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. ...
Alan Thicke
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. ...
Robert Cormier
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ...
Doug Larson
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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. ...
Miriam Makeba
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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. ...
Matthew Broderick
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Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. ...
Ryan Phillippe
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. ...
Voltaire
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I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. ...
Beverly Cleary
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I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. ...
Reese Witherspoon
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I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job. ...
Roseanne Barr
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. ...
Norma Shearer
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. ...
Susie Bright
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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. ...
Tina Turner
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. ...
Robert Orben
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I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. ...
Brooke Shields
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I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. ...
Rita Rudner
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I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. ...
Jill Clayburgh
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I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. ...
Liza Minelli
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ...
Bruce Jenner
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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad. ...
Abigail Van Buren
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ...
Anne Sullivan
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It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei. ...
Cindy Crawford
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. ...
Patricia Heaton
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ...
Plato
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Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ...
David Frost
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. ...
Coretta Scott King
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Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. ...
Lynn Johnston
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ...
Gloria Steinem
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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ...
Phyllis Diller
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Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. ...
Evan Bayh
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. ...
John F. Kennedy
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My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity. ...
Roberto Benigni
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My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. ...
Marion Jones
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My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. ...
Isabelle Huppert
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. ...
Quentin Crisp
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My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. ...
John H. Johnson
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. ...
Erma Bombeck
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No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. ...
Marcelene Cox
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ...
George Bernard Shaw
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Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. ...
Clive Owen
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Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker. ...
Christy Turlington
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Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. ...
John Boehner
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Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings. ...
Kelly LeBrock
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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. ...
Arnold H. Glasow
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That's my ideal day, time with my boys. ...
Kenny G
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ...
Benjamin Spock
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