Our Children Quotes - Page 40

• We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Children, Answers, Ancestor

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• When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?

  Nuhu Ribadu

  Kings, Children, Believe

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• Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

  Julianne Moore

  Children, Heart, Doctors

  "Clean Air Anthem" by Ronnie Citron-Fink, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2012.

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• Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

  Nora Ephron

  Children, Obligation, Understood

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• The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Children, Age, World

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• When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe
  we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom

  Chris Christie

  Children, Believe, Priorities

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• You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Destiny, Men

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• The world is nothing but a school of love;
  our relationships with our husband or wife,
  with our children and parents,
  with our friends and relatives
  are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

  Swami Muktananda

  Family, Children, Husband

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• Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

  Jamie Oliver

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Teach every child about food". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

  Philippe Starck

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Design and Destiny". TED Talk, March 2007.

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• Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Children, Motivation, Book

  "What Can We Gain By Writing A Letter By Hand?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 26, 2016.

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• It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A-C hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and everything. But it is not nice to bring them to our homes. It's not nice to give them employment in our factories, our companies. It's not nice for our children to study with their children. There it ends. That's my biggest challenge.

  Sunitha Krishnan

  Children, Motivation, Nice

  "The fight against sex slavery". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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• Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

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• I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

  Kim Kardashian

  Children, Sibling, Four

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• The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

  Stedman Graham

  Dream, Children, Thinking

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• If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

  Janusz Korczak

  Children, Order, May

  Janusz Korczak (1967). “Selected works of Janusz Korczak”

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• If politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people’s children…then it most assuredly is a woman’s job as much as it is a man’s job.

  Irene Parlby

  Jobs, Children, Mean

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• Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.

  Warren Jeffs

  Children, Husband, Men

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• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.

  Carl Paladino

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Stir National Fury". "Tell Me More" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. October 12, 2010.

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• We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

  Michael Frayn

  Country, Children, Men

  "Copenhagen". Play by Michael Frayn, May 21, 1998.

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• Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

  Harville Hendrix

  Romantic Love, Frustration, Childhood

  Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt (2013). “Making Marriage Simple: Ten Relationship-Saving Truths”, p.21, Harmony

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• The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Vaccines, Autism

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