My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

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.

Believe me my children have more stamina than a power station.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small so soft and warm like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

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.

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.

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.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

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.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.

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.

Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.

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.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.

At the end of the day the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.