Solomon Quotes

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

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.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

You put as much effort as you can when they're young into trying to teach them to be good people or make them the best they can be, and they're older now, my kids. I'm at that stage where I let them go, and you just hope that all that nurturing you did earlier on sticks, and you launched good people out there.

We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn't really an option to become spoiled brats.

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

My parents have a great role in inculcating values in me.

We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.

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

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

I want my kids to be good. I want them to be safe and have a great, long life. And take what they need from me and leave what they don't. Definitely leave what they don't.

The society will have good children, if the mothers are good. If the mothers lack sense and knowledge, the children may go the wrong way.

My mommy raised me so well.

I was raised the right way, my parents did a great job, I owe them everything. Without them, I'm not the man I am today.

My little one's only 12 and I miss seeing him grow up and trying to form him and mould him the way I'd like him to him to turn out, which is something like his dad!

My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.