Our Children Quotes - Page 33

• If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

  Jim Yong Kim

  Children, Suffering, Climate

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• In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Issues, People

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• We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

  Miriam Toews

  Girl, Cousin, Children

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• And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one – a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.

  Jack Layton

  Senior, Country, Children

  Jack Layton's Letter to Canadians, www.theglobeandmail.com. August 20, 2011.

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• Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

  Marc Faber

  Children, Years, Next

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• The whole process of raising a family is one of perfecting our own lives. That which we transmit consciously and unconsciously to our children in their rearing in the home and in the community must be the best within us.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Children, Home, Community

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• We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple

  Mamie Till

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson (2011). “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America”, p.8, Random House

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• If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

  Lewis Gordon

  Children, Environment, Ifs

  Address to the House of Lords, November 19, 2010.

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• I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

  Al Sharpton

  Children, Hate, Names

  First Million Youth March in Harlem, New York, September 05, 1998.

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• We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

  Freeman Dyson

  Children, Trying, Today

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

  Bill Mollison

  Children, Responsibility, Decision

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• We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

  Jacque Fresco

  Inspirational, Children, Reflection

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• If you want your children to relate to the culture you live in, if you want to train them outside of the general system, you have to tell your children that ordinary children tend to say things like 'I can run faster than you; I can draw better than you; I know things you don't know'. You have to tell them what normal children are like. Normal children are messed up and you have to tell them about that. But if you instruct your child in high correlation with the physical world, they won't be able to relate with normal children. Normal means mixed up as I use the word.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Children, Mean

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• The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, Intelligent, Culture

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• You have to tell your children about the world they live in, about the discrepancies, about the things that don't work… So you have to bring it up with a scientific orientation so they learn to ask questions, and learn how to say the most difficult thing in the world: 'I don't know'.

  Jacque Fresco

  Children, World, Difficult

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• The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

  Bill Crawford

  Children, Creative, Brain

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• Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

  Marion Woodman

  Children, Real, Flower

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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  Harpo Marx

  Brother, New York, Children

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• A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

  George Schaller

  Children, Animal, Ecosystems

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• If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.

  Sandra Dodd

  Children, Vision, Important

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• Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

  Kenny Guinn

  Teacher, Mistake, Parent

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• My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.

  Nel Noddings

  Children, Educational, Believe

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• Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Clever, May

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• When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.

  Grigori Rasputin

  Children, Men, Russia

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