Michelle Obama Quotes

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.

It takes a village to raise a child.

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

We wanted our children to have as normal a life as we could.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I do have a regular childhood.

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.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

No matter what the situation you're in, if you're raised in a loving environment, that's the most important thing.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents - how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.