Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Christians must be conscious of their specific and proper role in the political community; they should be a shining example by their sense of responsibility and their dedication to the common good

My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

Being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country.

I have brought up a fantastic family.

My first priority is my child.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

I always knew I wanted to have children and that I'd be a great parent because I feel that's one of the reasons I was born, almost.

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

I was raised to believe that you need to leave the world a better place than how you found it, as corny as that sounds.

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our family culture. Everyone in our family has found some way and capacity to serve. You don't necessarily need to be President or First Lady to serve and help.

It would be incredible to be a dad and raise a family.

I took being a mom very seriously.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

I want my kids to be good. I want them to be safe and have a great, long life. And take what they need from me and leave what they don't. Definitely leave what they don't.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.