Our Children Quotes - Page 26

• My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Smart

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.72, Rodale

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• We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Children, Judging, Forgiving

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• We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Children, Giving

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• If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Children, Way

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.4, Booklassic

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• Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

  Ken Robinson

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

  James Hillman

  Childhood, Way, Determined

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• Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Children, Wellness

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• How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

  Kevin Leman

  Children, Years, Play

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• The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

  Joe Lieberman

  Children, School, Promise

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• In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

  Bill Hicks

  Easter, Children, Night

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• You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Selfish, School

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Grows, Ifs

  1975 Speech, Oct.

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• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Responsibility

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

  Barbara Boxer

  Children, Moving, Protect

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• I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sarcastic, Children

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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• If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

  Primo Levi

  Children, Giving, Today

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

  Denis Waitley

  Children, Years, Cities

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• It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, School, Gun

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• I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

  Og Mandino

  Beach, Sweet, Memories

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.103, Bantam

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• We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Speak, Educate

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.19

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• I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

  Merle Haggard

  Children, Wife, Four

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• We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Education, Children, Kids

  "'Collective' outrage over MSNBC promo". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

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