Our Children Quotes - Page 22

• It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Children, First Love, Trying

  33 Copy quote

• We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Children, Teaching

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Children, Religion

  8 Copy quote

• Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple of weeks of our relationship, before he had met the girls. they are my priority and I've always be sensitive to their feelings, but as the parent you can't allow your children to dictate what's right for you.

  Demi Moore

  Girl, Mom, Children

  4 Copy quote

• Every day I ask my husband, 'Is it possible to over kiss your child?' I literally think I kiss him 200 times in a day. It's not normal!

  Rachel Zoe

  Mom, Children, Husband

  5 Copy quote

• Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Mom, Mother, Children

  10 Copy quote

• We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

  Sam Houston

  Children, Father, Men

  Sam Houston, Eugene Campbell Barker (1939). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Grieving

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!

  Dave Lindorff

  Country, Children, War

  5 Copy quote

• Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mother, Prayer, Children

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Children, Evil

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.104, CCEL

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mother, Jesus, Prayer

  Alexander Maclaren (1872). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.264

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together for the Lord's protection? Or closing the day without kneeling together and acknowledging our accountability before Him and our thankfulness for His blessings? Brothers and sisters, we need to have family prayer.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Morning, Brother, Prayer

  56 Copy quote

• But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

  Will Ferrell

  Children, Dad, Eye

  5 Copy quote

• In my career there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved. But my greatest achievement is my family. What matters is being a good father and a good husband-just being connected to family as much as possible. Being a dad is more important than football, more important than anything. I adore children. I love the fact our children are part of both of us. It's one of the most amazing things ever.

  David Beckham

  Football, Children, Husband

  5 Copy quote

• You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Dad, Father

  17 Copy quote

• I've never struggled with that at all....in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Crazy, Texas

  "Here's What You Need To Know About Rick Perry And The Death Penalty" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. September 8, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Religious, Children, Couple

  4 Copy quote

• We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

  Robin Sharma

  Mother, Children, Son

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.1, Jaico Publishing House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears like not being approved of pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

  Arianna Huffington

  Baby, Children, Parent

  "Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today's toys contain computer chips, so they can move and talk; this stimulates the mind of your child. Notice I say "your child." MY child just wants to eat the toys.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.84, Crown Archetype

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Children, Food

  7 Copy quote

• Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.

  William Whately

  Christian, Children, Blessing

  7 Copy quote

• Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Letting Go, Fear

  42 Copy quote

• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Math, Science

  7 Copy quote