Your Children Quotes - Page 12

• It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Stupid, Easy

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1333, Macmillan

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• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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  Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Atheist, Children

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thy will be done, my Lord. Because you know the weakness in the heart of your children, and you assign each of them only the burden they can bear. May you understand my love–because it is the only thing I have that is really mine, the only thing that I will be able to take with me into the next life. Please allow it to be courageous and pure; please make it capable of surviving the snares of the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Heart, Weakness

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• When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.

  Robert James Waller

  Mother, Children, Moving

  "The Bridges of Madison County". www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

  Janette Rallison

  Children, Decision, Selling

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• But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.

  Kiera Cass

  Children, Hate, Stress

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.

  N.D. Wilson

  Laughter, Children, Eye

  "Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World".

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• Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa. "Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa. "I should like smaller ears," Raffin offered. "Prince Raffin has nice, handsome ears," Helda said, not looking up from her knitting. "As will his children. Your children will have no ears at all, My Lady," she said sternly to Katsa. Katsa stared back at her, flabbergasted. "I believe it's more that her ears won't have children," began Raffin, "which, you'll agree, sounds much less—

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Nice, Believe

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• Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

  Debora Spar

  Inspiring, Children, Credit

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• If anyone has it rough at Guantanamo, it is the guards. They are constantly harassed and threatened by some of these terrorists. Prisoners tell guards, we know where your families are. We know where your wife is, your children, and we are going to kill them.

  Robin Hayes

  Children, Wife, Terrorist

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• When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

  Rosellen Brown

  Life, Childhood, Kicks

  Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta

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• If you can prevent one fight among your children, let it be the fight for your attention.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Fighting, Attention

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• The most important thing you will ever give your children is a little of your time.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Giving, Important

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• If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Children, Home

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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• As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

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• Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Ideas, Giving

  Charlotte Maria Mason (1935). “Home Education”, Tyndale House Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there you will find the heart of a child. Invest the majority of his time in entertainment, and his heart will be turned to love of pleasure. Invest his time in peers rather then family, and his heart will be with the peers more than his family. There is a time and place for all good things in balance, but wise parents will steward the treasure of time, and in so doing, shepherd their children's hearts.

  Doug Phillips

  Wise, Children, Heart

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• The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

  Jim George

  Children, Way, Praying

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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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