Best Our Children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.”

Giving Children Turns Space Rocks Particular Our Children Your Children Fishing Rough Yards Bugs Small Child Manicures

Author:Richard Louv

“Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.”

Children Our Children Your Children

Author:Michael Madsen

“Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.”

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Author:Michael McCaul

“It's important to have masculine energy around your child.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.”

Giving Children Our Children Hopeful Hopeful Future

Author:Giorgio Napolitano

“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.”

Ifs Children School Crazy Security Protect Police Our Children Call Me Call Me Crazy

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.”

Wells Children Force Bed Our Children Your Children

Author:Monica Potter

“Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.”

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Author:Ryan Phillippe

“The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.”

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Author:Stefanie Powers

“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.”

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Author:Geoffrey Rush

“Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

Ifs Children Home Christian Wish Term Christianity Trouble Miracle Our Children Your Children Gracious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.”

Ifs Giving Wells May Children Education Our Children Bureaucrats

Author:John Gresham Machen

“There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.”

Children Love Is Our Children Papa Love Our Children

Author:Richie Sambora

“We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.”

Want Children Goal Common Share Succeed Our Children Common Goal

Author:Bob Taft

“The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.”

Thinking World Way Children Play Social Wealth Our Children Raises Transforming

Book:The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

Source: The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence

“There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.”

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Author:John Thune

“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.”

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Author:Claude Vorilhon

“I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world.”

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Author:George Voinovich

“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

Ifs Children Hard Helping Kids House Childhood Emotional Lucky Our Children Legacy Remembered Your Children Distinction Lucky You

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life.”

Children Four Our Children Pregnancy Pants Doomed Belly Origami

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.”

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Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Our children are our most important assets.”

Children Important Our Children Assets

Author:Rodney Erickson

“We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with”

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Author:Rodney Erickson

“Your child can die from chickenpox.”

Children Dies Our Children Your Children

Author:Paul A. Offit

“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.”

Giving Humans Children Art Life Is Lying Names Building Our Children Beach Your Children Aesthetic Sophisticated Being Human Humanistic Sandcastles

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are.”

Believe Childhood Events Mercy Our Children

Book:The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

Source: The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook

“God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."”

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Author:Vance Havner

“We don't teach our children how to dream.”

Children Dream Teach Our Children

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.”

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Author:Dan Marino

“I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.”

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Author:Olivia Williams

“Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If you treat that person with respect, that's fine, that's the way to go. But if you don't, you're not being the parent you could be.”

Ifs Way Children Persons Parent Fine Treats Our Children Your Children Being A Parent

Author:Art Alexakis

“If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.”

Ifs Way Children Church Our Children Your Children Wrong Things

Author:Ed Stetzer

“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.”

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Author:Lars von Trier

“The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.”

Children States Parent Our Children Your Children

Author:Rand Paul

“Above all, let us pray for our children.”

Children Praying Our Children

Author:Rick Perry

“You can't live your life through your children.”

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Author:Carl Lewis

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”

Source: A Fighting Chance

“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.”

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Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.”

May Children Country Causes Enjoy United Generations Thousand Benefits Our Children Institutions Glorious Rejoice

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches

“We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.”

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Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“We cannot give our children what we don’t have.”

Giving Children Our Children

Book:The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children. They are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.”

Knows Years Children Made Character Unique Our Children Excitement

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?”

Ifs Children Parent Challenges Imagine Prove Our Children Something New Prove It

Author:Veronica Chambers

“One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.”

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Author:Tad R. Callister

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