Our Children Quotes - Page 9

• We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.

  T.I.

  Children, Mean, Dying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Real, Leaving

  "Trump's EPA Pick Softens Positions Amid Democratic Criticisms" by Jennifer A Dlouhy, www.bloomberg.com. January 19, 2017.

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• It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

  T.I.

  Children, School, Parent

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I want to say to mothers out there, you know, take your children to marches. Take them to meetings because this is a way that they can become strong, and they understand what politics is all about because they are actually living it.

  Dolores Huerta

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

  Marva Collins

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• Our children learn the phonetic method, which is why they're very good spellers, I suppose. Because rather than ABC or just saying a word, they'll have to go a as in apple and all the other a's there are in the English language. They learn that when they're four. Children all over America can tell you that a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y are vowels. But you ask them about that "sometimes y," and they can't tell you.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Apples, America

  Source: reason.com

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• As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

  Tracy Martin

  Children, America, Worry

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I hope I can tell you what happened in Europe and support you in your fight to preserve freedom for your children and your grandchildren, and tell them what I believe the Islamic threat is, and to discuss it with anybody - also people who don't agree with me. This is democracy. This is civil society. We should cherish that.

  Geert Wilders

  Children, Believe, Islamic

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• One of the days we unpack finding out how your kids are wired, what kind of intelligence has God given them, how do they give and receive love, what the passions of their life, how does their birth order and their gender affect them because all of those things are part of the tapestry that God is weaving together to use each of our children for His glory.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Children, Passion, Kids

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mother, Children, Rain

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that you're going to reform your education system so that our children are performing better.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, Giving

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

  Charles Koch

  Children, Opposites, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.

  Patti Smith

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Mayas, our grandparents, always said; every human being occupies a small piece of time. Time itself is much longer, and because of this they always said that we must care for this earth while we are on it because it will be part of our children and the children of our grandchildren. They know that life is short, that it can end so soon, and that if one gets lost on the way, others will come to take their place.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Children, Life Is Short, Grandparent

  Source: www.indians.org

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• I'm proud that I've been able to work with other artists to make sure that the smallest voices - the voices of our children - have a chance to be heard. Artists can reach, inspire, and motivate young people and leaders in a powerful way.

  Shakira

  Children, Powerful, Artist

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Father, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.

  John Lewis

  Children, War, Issues

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Childhood, Gone, Rough Times

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's why I'm concerned about education, because it helps our children see other worlds. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

  Bette Midler

  Art, Children, Taken

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Daughter, Children

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.

  Terry Crews

  Children, Mistake, Kids

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• In my own life, there's no amount of success or money that's more important than your child being healthy and happy. There's nothing that can put a band-aid on that. There's nothing more valuable, to me, than your child.

  Paula Patton

  Children, Healthy, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• Rather than the word career, I prefer to discuss how you make a positive I pact on the world. This could mean raising your children, professional activities, non-profit work, or various other actions you take that impact others. I have found that, at all ages, people want to be needed and play a role in impacting the world.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Children, Mean, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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