Barack Obama Quotes

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Do the best you can. And remember that the greatest asset you have in this world is those children who you've brought into the world, and for whose nurture and care you're responsible.

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

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

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

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.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

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.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

I personally do not believe I'm irresponsible. Everything I do revolves around my children.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.