Amy Chua Quotes

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

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.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

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.

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

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

I don't know what my daughter will become.

To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don't see it that way.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

My dream is that my kids grow up into nice people; that's my dream.

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.

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

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them.