Our Children Quotes - Page 17

• There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Parenting, Effort

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Hands, Arrows

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• We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

  Daniel Dennett

  Children, Growing Up, Scary

  Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.50, Penguin

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• When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Teaching, Discipline

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.6, Random House

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• And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.

  Philippa Gregory

  Queens, Children, Princess

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• We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Said

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.274, A&C Black

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• I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.596, ShandonPress

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• We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Hurt, Jobs

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.176, St. Martin's Griffin

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• What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Song, Children, Fall

  Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Courting Darkness: An Otherworld Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, 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. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, ch. 25: "Real Patriots Ask Questions", 1995.

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• Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Children, Frustration

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• Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Cutting, Winter

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.400, Ballantine Books

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• The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

  Andy Stanley

  Monday, Children, Sunday

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• When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Abortion, Pro Life

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library, October 16, 1873.

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• The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

  Carl Sagan

  Dream, Children, Future

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Growing Up, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.265, Dial Press

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• Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Giving, Lord

  Roald Dahl (1991). “Collected Stories”, Everyman's Library

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• Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Parent, Generations

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• Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Baseball, Children, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

  Kevin Kelly

  Children, Technology, Self

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.215, Penguin

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• Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Children, Parent, Sequels

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• We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

  Martha Stout

  Girl, Children, Mean

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• We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Cutting, Mass Extinction

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• The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Sleep, Night

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