Danica McKellar Quotes

Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!

School is very important to my family.

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

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

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

My family was very supportive, but also very insistent that I finish school, and to be honest, I wanted to finish school.

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

One of the reasons I never went into pro football was because I wanted my kids to grow up around an academic environment. And that's exactly what we did.

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

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

Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

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.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.