Our Children Quotes - Page 3

• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Children

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Educational, Future

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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• Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Children, Responsibility

  Sir Richard Branson (2017). “Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography”, p.149, Random House

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• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

  John Conyers

  Family, Children, Caring

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• What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Parenting, Want

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• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

  Anatole Broyard

  Relationship, Children, Obedience

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• For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Moving, Want

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Native American, Parent

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• For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Parenting, Yesterday, Bows And Arrows

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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• It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.

  Ken Ham

  Christian, Children, America

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• For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.

  John Calipari

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

  Michael McCaul

  Children, Drug, Needs

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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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• Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

  Jackson Browne

  Children, Rock And Roll, Bye

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• If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Children, Crazy, School

  "Would Armed Guards Make School Safer?". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 26, 2012.

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• Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.

  Martin O'Malley

  Jobs, Children, Class

  Gov. Martin O'Malley DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Children, Desire, Special

  "Sen. Hagan on marriage: 'It's time to move forward'" by Phil Reese, www.washingtonblade.com. March 27, 2013.

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• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Years, Skills

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• It's about not rewarding your children with food, not always celebrating with food. I do think it's important to find other ways to comfort our children and ourselves, to work other ways of celebrating and rewarding.

  Stephanie Klein

  Children, Thinking, Important

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• Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Rocks, Fishing

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.

  Michael Madsen

  Children, Your Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Children, Giving, Hopeful

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• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Important, Energy

  "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

  Shirley Henderson

  Children, Class, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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