Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

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.

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person, but when I became a father, ambition had a different hold on me. Providing for my kids was important, but the superficial ambition drifted away.

I stay with my family. I try to be a good husband and good dad. That's my real life.

Family home evening is for everyone.... We need the strength that comes from family home evening.

The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.

And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s relentless efforts to splinter the family and to undermine the significance of temple ordinances, which bind the family together for eternity. The temple sealing has greater meaning as life unfolds. It will help you draw ever closer together and find greater joy and fulfillment in mortality.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.