Our Children Quotes - Page 12

• What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Autism, Missing

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• We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Women, School

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Andrew L. Zehner "How They Work In Indiana: Business-Education Partnerships" (p. 3), 1994.

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• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Adults

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.

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• When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, Health, Funeral

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• Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Book

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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• President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Children, Believe, Years

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• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Blood, Sweat

  "2008: The year in review" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

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• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Determination, Jobs

  "Obama Tells Congressional Black Caucus To 'Stop Grumbling'" by Zeke Miller, www.businessinsider.com. September 25, 2011.

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Art, Children

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• In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Fun, Mean

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• So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Children, Perfection, Joy

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• Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

  Rosa Parks

  Children, Powerful, Racism

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• If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

  Amanda Peet

  Children, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 13, 2012.

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• What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Children, Cutting

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• Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Desire, Inheritance

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Education, Teacher

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• I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Children, Believe, World

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, Children

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.

  Anne Roiphe

  Children, Doctors, People

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• You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

  Mitt Romney

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Party

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• If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

  Paul Ryan

  Children, Decision, Today

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