Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
Lee Trevino

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
Gloria Steinem

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Gloria Steinem

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
Barney Frank

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
Rick Warren

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

My mother insisted that her children read.
Jimmy Buffett

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
Adam Sandler