Sally Phillips Quotes

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

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.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

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

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

Even today, you get criticized if you're staying at home, because you're not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you're not raising your kids.

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.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

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

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.