Our Children Quotes - Page 27

• Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Children, Responsibility

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• I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

  Harry Chapin

  Success, Children, Believe

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• Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

  John Green

  Children, Hipster

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• Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

  Wesley Clark

  Children, Fighting, Water

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• Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Children, Global Warming, Natural

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• Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, War, Giving

  "'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind'". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Technology, Mind

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• Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Eye, Looks

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ambition, Knowing

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Eye, Our Generation

  Speech at Bali climate change conference 2007, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2007.

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• We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, World, Want

  Barack Obama's re-election speech in Chicago, www.bbc.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Children, Oil, Coal

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• There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

  Bertrand Russell

  Anniversary, Children, Parent

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.11, Routledge

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• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Children, Parent

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• The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

  Robert Breault

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Adults

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• Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Dog, Children, Motivation

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.36, BookBaby

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• Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Parent, Remember

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.39, BookBaby

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• You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Loss, Soda Pop

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• There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, People, May

  "What's It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 6, 2013.

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• Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.

  E.W. Jackson

  Children, Teaching, Parent

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• Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our children feel friendship within the family, with each other, and with parents, they will not be desperate for acceptance outside the family. I think one of life’s most satisfying accomplishments for my wife and me is to have lived long enough to see our children become good friends.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Children, Home, Acceptance

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• Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Children, Thinking, Different

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• We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

  Kathryn Harrison

  Children, Unconditional Love, Thinking

  Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.175, Random House

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• I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.

  Jami Gertz

  Children, Son, Thinking

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