Leah Remini Quotes

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

If you know that you've given the right upbringing and knowledge to your children, you have already won half the battle.

My mother means the world to me. She is my inspiration and motivating force. She has brought me up perfectly and given me the value and ethics that I still proudly believe in and follow.

Children are primed to take in something of more moral value than they're getting. I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but 'E.T.' had value to it in terms of the feeling about yourself that you walked away with.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that.

My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.