Meir Soloveichik Quotes

We are committed to raising our children as Jews. I knew that it had to start with me at a greater level, at a deeper level, if it was going to be a meaningful example to them.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

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

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

I took being a mom very seriously.

My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

I definitely don't want to have kids. I don't think I'd be a great mother. I don't want to have a kid and have it raised by a nanny. I don't have the time to raise a child.

We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.

I'm a family person, and I always wanted four kids.

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.

Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.

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.

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

We loved our dad. My mom loved her husband. But at the end of the day, I think, he did what he was supposed to do in this world. He had five kids and raised us right. That's the most important thing.

You can't force kids on people.