Our Children Quotes - Page 32

• Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

  Mark Steyn

  Children, Blessing, Years

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.207, Regnery Publishing

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• Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

  Nancy Reagan

  Children, Cells, People

  "Reagans Cheer Obama Stem Cell Order — But Not Invited To Ceremony" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or things that happened to us that affected our lives, things we can laugh about and shed a few tears about... I think storytelling is a way of saying 'I love you. I love you enough to tell you something that means a great deal to me.'

  Kathryn Tucker Windham

  Memories, Love You, Mean

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• And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, Childhood, Dresses

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• I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.

  Robin Yount

  Jobs, Children, Wife

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• All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

  Rita Dove

  Thinking, Childhood, Where We Come

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• You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Children, Passion, Unique

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• Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Mean, Air

  "Lady Bird Johnson’s Letters Affirm Passion for Nature" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

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• Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

  James Hillman

  Childhood, Way, Determined

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• Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Children, Wellness

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• How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

  Kevin Leman

  Children, Years, Play

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• The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

  Joe Lieberman

  Children, School, Promise

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• In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

  Bill Hicks

  Easter, Children, Night

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• You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Selfish, School

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Grows, Ifs

  1975 Speech, Oct.

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• We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Mistake, Responsibility

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• Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

  Robert Crais

  Drama, Past, Childhood

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Responsibility

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

  Carolyn Porco

  Beauty, God, Children

  "A Free-for-All on Science and Religion" by George Johnson, www.nytimes.com. November 21, 2006.

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• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  Harry Hay

  Mother, Pain, Laughter

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• It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

  Lois Gibbs

  Children, Work, Moving

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• If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

  Barbara Boxer

  Children, Moving, Protect

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