Our Children Quotes - Page 13

• By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

  Paul Ryan

  Children, President, Failing

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• I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

  Paul Ryan

  Children, Opportunity, America

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

  Paul Ryan

  Children, Opportunity, Firsts

  "Paul Ryan Is Faking It Until He Makes It" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Moving, Games

  "Teach Your Children Well for a Better Life" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Writing, Past

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• Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

  Bobby Sands

  Happiness, Laughter, Children

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

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• You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Education, Children, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

  John Sculley

  Leadership, Teacher, Children

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• Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Emotional, Painful Experiences

  Maurice Sendak's acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are" (1964), as quoted in "Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books: 1956-65" edited by Lee Kingman, 1965.

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• The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

  Frank Serpico

  Children, Believe, Fighting

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• In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

  Donna Shalala

  Children, Caring, Adults

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Truth

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• Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Mom, Children, School

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• Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

  Peter Singer

  New Year, Children, Years

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• We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Concern For Others, People

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.315, Princeton University Press

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• We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Children, Thinking, Long

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• We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Names, Generations

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.115, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

  Charles Stanley

  Children, Giving Up, Perfect

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• For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

  David Suzuki

  Children, Priorities, Positive Energy

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• Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

  Alison Sweeney

  Dog, Children, Mistake

  "'Biggest Loser' host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

  Jim Talent

  Children, Responsibility, Government

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• Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Commitment, Journey

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• We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Fundamentals, Legacy

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• The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

  Tom Vilsack

  Children, Insecurity, Nutrition

  "Securing Our Future Through Our Children’s Health" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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• One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

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