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I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.
- Michael Douglas
Above all, children need our unconditional love, whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.
- Barack Obama
There is no government so worthy as your son who fishes with you in silence beside the forest pool. There is no national glory so comely as your daughter whose hands have learned a music and go their own way on the keys.
- Wendell Berry
the father who is the natural enemy of any son and son-in-law of whom the mother is the ally, just as after the wedding the father will be the ally of the actual son-in-law who has for mortal foe the mother of his wife.
- William Faulkner
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
- George Clooney
In this achievement-based lifestyle, most of us have certain boxes we're checking to make us useful humans. But a lot of things you do as a parent are kinda invisible. There's a lot you achieve - just getting dinner on the table - that are more than making a song.
- Stephen Malkmus
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.
- Gordon Hinckley
[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.
- Thomas Monson
It's important for parents to be strict if you want the kids to succeed.
- Geeta Phogat
Men and women of character raise strong children who are not easily influenced by the media, corrupt schools, bad friends, and the outside world.
- Jesse Lee Peterson