Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.

It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that.

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

I had a good upbringing.