Our Children Quotes - Page 10

• We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Memories

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.316, Algonquin Books

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• I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. Any way to get the word out, I'm just learning about this. The end of this distribution sentence is the scariest part, which is when you start producing and directing. Now the movies are a little more like your children. You now spent years of your life and then it just dumps in one day and you think what happened? It doesn't always happen.

  Campbell Scott

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You might think that Social Security's family benefit maximum is what it sounds like, a straightforward dollar ceiling on the total amount that you, your spouse, and your children can receive on your earnings record and that the same ceiling would apply to everyone. But you'd be wrong. For starters, there's a rather weird and arguably unfair formula for calculating the family benefit maximum.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Children, Thinking, Unfair

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Ignorance, Compassion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our greatest ally in the Pakistan region of turmoil is the moderate Muslim majority, who we must reach out to and embrace if we ever are to have peace for our children.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Embrace, Reach Out

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Élysée Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Running, Children, Moving

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• If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women, that your children are at risk of riding that freight train straight into hell or an opium den. Then I'd parlay that fear into a chain of overpriced "rehab" centers that can cure them and shake Satan from their souls. But I am not that ambitious. I am a drunk.

  Doug Stanhope

  Children, Lying, Marijuana

  Source: hightimes.com

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• I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Believe, Liberty

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological condition that affects different people in different ways. But I was reading an awful lot about it, to try and find ways of helping my child. I think a lot of fiction comes from this desire to confront unanswerable questions, and it's heartbreaking to see your child, a bright child, struggling so much with something that others are finding so easy. It's such an assault to the child's self-esteem and, as a mother, it's hard to watch.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Mother, Children, Struggle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  Unknown

  Mother, Children, Father

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• When you get busy, the priorities change. In your twenties, you hang out with who you were in school with. Then you grow up and you hang out with the people you're playing ball with, things you like doing with. When you get married, it changes a bit and you lose some friends, or you gain other friends. You gain couple-y friends. It changes again when you have children, and then when your children are the focus of your life.

  Paul Reiser

  Children, Growing Up, School

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• God is so much nicer than you can imagine. I know "nice" is an odd word, but He loved you enough to die for you. And if you think of a great parent, then you got a glimpse of God, a great father, a great mother, and how they look at their children. How you, if you're a parent, you look at your children.

  Mark Lowry

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Your children are your retirement plan. Because of that, all parents want their children, their only children, to do really well financially, so that they can essentially take care of their parents when they are older.

  Jenova Chen

  Retirement, Children, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed race marriages, gay partners, divorced moms. We all love our children and want to do right by them, and that's what matters most.

  Julia Scheeres

  Mom, Children, Gay

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• Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.

  David Cay Johnston

  Senior, Fashion, Children

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• Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It's interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That's how it all starts - someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.

  Donte Stallworth

  Football, Children, School

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• We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Made, Experiments

  "Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Recovery, Helping Others

  "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Heart, Opportunity

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• September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

  Richard Peck

  Children, Home, Waiting

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• All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Book, Taken

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• [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Support, Understanding

  Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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• Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Real, Believe

  Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Stronger, World

  "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead". Book by Brené Brown, September 11, 2012.

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• We’re suckers for this, Sydney. Men. You’ve got me completely helpless right now. You’re so beautiful and alluring, and we guys can’t help ourselves. We fight wars for you, cajole you . . . and you put up with us. We have it easy here in bed.” She turned my face toward hers. “This wasn’t exactly difficult for me.” “But we still have it easy. You’re the strength, the pillars . . . our defenders, our children’s defenders.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Children, War

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.170, Penguin

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