Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible. Everything I do revolves around my children.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

I take care of my daughter, because my family is very important to me.