George Foreman Quotes

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

I just like working with my family; I like building something together.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

Fathers should speak with their children.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

I love my sons and I love that they are writers - I also love my daughter, who's a minister and an orchard keeper! - but I wouldn't wish the burden of Mid-World and the Dark Tower on them. I enjoy working with them, though, because we fit together.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or relationship, no matter how dramatic adolescence becomes, you children will probably turn out all right and want some form of connection to you in adulthood.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

To a child, 'love' is spelled T-I-M-E.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.