Barack Obama Quotes

Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

I think it's crucially important to be present in the lives of your children. They are my most important cause that I fight for. But I also feel an added responsibility that I want to leave them a better world than this one that we have now.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

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

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

Who's taking care of the children is an important question for all of us.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.