James Dobson Quotes

At the end of the day, I'm a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Growing up, my dad and my mom were there for my sister and I.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

My parents had an inter-reli'gious marriage. My father is a Gujarati and my mother a Bohri Muslim. I am an only child. My par'ents loved me very much, but were very strict: I was a tomboy, always among boys, playing, fighting.

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.

I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to speak, the way I was able to do.

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.