Our Children Quotes

• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Family, Inspiring, Success

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• Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Friday, Mother

  "Creating Fond Memories With Our Children" by Dr. Hyder Zahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2014.

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Family, Mother, Children

  Joyce Maynard (2010). “At Home in the World: A Memoir”, p.300, Macmillan

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Children, Blessed

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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

  Denis Waitley

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

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• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

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• 35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

  Jeff Bridges

  Country, Children, War

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Children, Wise Parents

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Children, Together

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2015

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Arrows

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  "The Old Curiosity Shop".

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• It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

  William Graham Sumner

  Children, Rights, Views

  The Forgotten Man's Almanac 14 October (1919)

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

  Josh Billings

  Family, Children, Dad

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Failure, Teaching

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• I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

  Red Cloud

  Love, Life, Peace

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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Should Have, Childhood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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