Our Children Quotes - Page 39

• As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community.

  Dawna Markova

  Children, Compassion, Community

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• Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.

  Lilian Katz

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than just learn how to read and write; we want them to learn in such a way that they become lifelong readers and writers. If we push our children to start learning these skills too far ahead of their own spontaneous interest and their capacity, we may sacrifice the long-range goal of having them enjoy such pursuits.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Moving, Writing

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• Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• Like other parents in this country, we want to give our children the best opportunities, to shower them with love, to teach them respect and a love for the rich and diverse traditions America has to offer them.

  Jennifer Chrisler

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Song, Children, Ancestor

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• Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

  Brent L. Top

  Children, Teaching, Important

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• Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

  Will Tuttle

  Children, Animal, Knowing Better

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.411, Lantern Books

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• We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Children, Answers, Ancestor

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• The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Vaccines, Autism

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• If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Humanity, Unhappy

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• Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

  Ansel Adams

  Children, Legacy, Splendid

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• By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Art, Children, Hero

  "I have a Dream: the Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr". Book by Lenwood G. Davis, p.266, 1973.

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• The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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• Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, America

  "Head Snapping Hypocrisy From Reid and Obama On the Debt Ceiling" by Karl Rove, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2011.

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• It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

  Denis Norden

  Children, Memories, Holiday

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• If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Children, Happy Life

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Listening, Trying

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2009.

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• The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Real, Self

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• It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

  George Barna

  Spiritual, Jobs, Children

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• What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?

  Rumi

  Morning, Children, Ifs

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Way Things Should”

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• Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.

  Fred Rogers

  Baby, Children, Parent

  Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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• We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Tired

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Love You, Parent

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• If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

  William Martin

  Children, Humility, Bully

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