Our Children Quotes - Page 11

• I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

  Tom Coburn

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Learning, Ideas

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• Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Cutting, Fighting

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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• When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  "Carly Fiorina on 'Your World'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2010.

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• We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Made, Experiments

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.

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• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mother, Gratitude

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• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Believe, Book

  "It pays to trust your gut" by Daniel Terdiman, www.wired.com. January 7, 2005.

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• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Baby, Children

  Hermann and Dorothea pt. 3 (1797)

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• Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Children, Responsibility, Goodness

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company

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• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  Brad Henry

  Senior, Art, Children

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• For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

  Brad Henry

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

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• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Needs, World

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• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  Naveen Jain

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Skills, Use

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• The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Workout, Children

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.130, Hackett Publishing

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• First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

  Angelina Jolie

  Family, Children, Teaching

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• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  "Look" Magazine, (JFK memorial issue), November 17, 1964.

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• I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

  Evel Knievel

  Children, Thinking, Engineering

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• I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

  Richard Lamm

  Baby, Children, Thinking

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• You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Children, Flower

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• We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

  John Lynch

  Senior, Children, Responsibility

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• We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

  Wangari Maathai

  Inspiring, Children, Generations

  "Farewell Wangari Maathai, You Were a Global Inspiration – and My Heroine" by Joseph Kabiru, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2011.

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• The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Fire, Impact

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• Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

  Marilyn Manson

  Children, Adults, Entertainment

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• Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Recovery, Helping Others

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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