Our Children Quotes - Page 24

• We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

  Betty Williams

  Children, Work, Home

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

  Geoffrey Holder

  Inspirational, Children, Teaching

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• Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Mistake, Eugenics

  Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells (2016). “The Pivot of Civilization”, p.134, Read Books Ltd

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• The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

  Arthur Hopcraft

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Should Have, Fatherhood

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• See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Teaching, Science

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• Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Children, Love You

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• This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Community, Matter

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 20, 2004.

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• Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, School, Trying

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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• I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he's straight, think of all the fabulous things he's going to miss out on. When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.

  Debra Messing

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

  "‘Will & Grace’ Stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing Reunite To Support The Trevor Project". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am

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• We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Country, Money

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• By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.

  Joseph Lowery

  Children, Teaching, White

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• God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Gratitude, Children, Blessed

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• Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Children, Responsibility

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• I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

  Harry Chapin

  Success, Children, Believe

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• Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

  John Green

  Children, Hipster

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• Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

  Wesley Clark

  Children, Fighting, Water

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• Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Children, Global Warming, Natural

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• Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, War, Giving

  "'For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind'". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Technology, Mind

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• Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Eye, Looks

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ambition, Knowing

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Eye, Our Generation

  Speech at Bali climate change conference 2007, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2007.

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• We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, World, Want

  Barack Obama's re-election speech in Chicago, www.bbc.com. November 7, 2012.

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