There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about. 572
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere. 605
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. 2.41K
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. 593
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children. 665
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. 2.05K
Head Start’s ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America’s future success. 606
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there’s less and less time for songwriting. 2.51K
Success, and even life itself, wouldn’t be worth anything if I didn’t have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me. 2.26K
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. 1.92K
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. 2.63K
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but there’s also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. 611
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. 2.16K
To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I’ve got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she’s a lovely mare. 684
But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. 640
I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope. 2.28K
