Our Children Quotes - Page 31

• It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or thinking narrowly, in ways noone else can. You can either lose your mind and your authenticity in the process of reacting to all that stuff, or you can use it as the perfect opportunity to grow and nourish your children by attending to what is deepest and best in them and in yourself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Children, Blood, World

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• We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children’s development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child’s struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Struggle, Opportunity

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• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Encouragement, Children, School

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• Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

  Jon Jones

  Peace, Children, Greatest Gifts

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• I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Children, Father, Reality

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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  Wendy Craig

  Children, Abuse, Population

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• You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Children, Nba

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• It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, War, Government

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.328, Fordham Univ Press

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• There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, War, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.623, Library of America

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• I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Children, Father

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.328, Fordham Univ Press

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• Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Husband, Children

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• Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Cutting, Firsts

  Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

  Edna Buchanan

  Children, Book, Writing

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• It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Children, Long, Parent

  "Time to End the Censorship" by Phyllis Schlafly, eagleforum.org. December 29, 2004.

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• There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Children, Silly

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• Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do it, you're in sin; you are in sin. And if you turn it over to a Sunday school teacher, you are in sin. And you are to be teaching these children more than just stories about animals that went into Noah's ark. You're to be teaching them about God, about radical depravity, about blood atonement, about propitiation, expiation, justification, sanctification; you are to teach your children!

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?

  Paul Washer

  Children, Lying, School

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• If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Children, Habit

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.15, Booklassic

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• If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

  Bob Dole

  Children, Thinking, Bob

  "New York" Magazine‎, April 29, 1996.

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Confused, Childhood

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• We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

  Jim Clyburn

  Children, Responsibility, Healthy

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• I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Thinking, Unforgivable Sin

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• Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

  Thomas Carper

  Children, Company We Keep, Choices

  "Showing a Father’s Love by Protecting Our Children’s Health" by Thomas Carper, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.

  Stephen Harper

  Children, Thinking, Experts

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