Brian France Quotes

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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.

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.

An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

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.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

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

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

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

All I ever wanted to be was a mum. It wasn't like when I was at school I thought: 'Oh, I'm going to be this big career girl.'

Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.

I took being a mom very seriously.

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.