O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Our children need our presence, not our presents.”
“Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.”
“Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.”
“Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.”
“Our children need to see themselves and others represented in the books they read, the toys they play with, and the media they consume.”
“Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.”
“Our children should be indoctrinated in the principles of the Gospel from their earliest childhood. They should be made familiar with the contents of the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. These should be their chief text books, and everything should be done to establish and promote in their hearts genuine faith in God, in His Gospel and its ordinances, and in His works.”
“Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].”
“Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.”
“Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Our children shouldn’t live in darkness. Our children shouldn’t feel alone. The silent killer does not have the right to suffocate our children and take their souls.”
“Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.”
Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
“Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.”
Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure
“Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.”
“Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.”
“Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
“Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.”
Source: The Working Mom Manifesto
“Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.”
“Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.”
“Our children were slowly dehumanized by pop-culture, and teachers fell for it.”
“Our children who are being bullied shouldn’t feel hopeless, they shouldn’t fear for their lives, nor should they isolate themselves in silence because someone enjoys causing fear and getting a reaction out of them.”
“Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.”
Source: White Teeth
“Our children will be counted, and justice will be served. Our babies deserve a fair chance at life. We are our children’s groundbreakers; therefore, we cannot give up. We might run out of breath but we must have the willpower when moving forward to fight for our children’s voices to be heard. Bullying is not accepted”
“Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.”
“Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.”
“Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.”
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
“Our children will one day lead the world, but it is our responsibility to show them that this world can be a beautiful one.”
“Our children will value our advice based on the example we’ve set, and the perseverance we’ve shown.”
“Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.”
“Our children's children will hear a good story.”
Source: Watership Down: A Novel
“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.”
“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give.
Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it.
And now I think I have said sufficient.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.”
“Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.”
“Our choice is between cynicism and hope.”
“Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without”
“Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.”
“Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.”
“Our choice of words often reveal the depth of our knowledge … or ignorance … or that of our desire to be deemed knowledgeable.”
“Our choice, always, is to love and understand.”
Source: Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds
“Our choices allow us to shape our own soul personalities.”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“Our choices are affected by how information is framed. Depending on which qualities are emphasized, identical facts can be more or less appealing.”
“Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.”
“Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.”
“Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.”
“Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.”
Source: The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel
“Our choices are us. Envisioning choices as sea blue circles places a marker on our decisions: every word, each coffee, every button, and choices in between. The blue circles upon our daily choices are reflection points and moments of consideration. This is a choice is the breath before you look fully at loved ones or strangers and the breath before you change and reframe a pattern so as to not misplace a moment. The breath before you say I love you to you. Again and again. This is a choice.”
Source: We are Circles: The Self-Love Geometry of Choices
“Our choices are us. Envisioning choices as sea blue circles places a sticker across our days: every word, each coffee, every button, and choices in between. The blue stickers across our days are reflection points and moments of consideration. This is a choice is the breath before you look fully at loved ones or strangers and the breath before you change and reframe a pattern so as to not misplace a moment. The breath before you say I love you to you. Again and again. This is a choice.”
Source: We are Circles: The Self-Love Geometry of Choices
“Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.”