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“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”

Ifs Thinking Children Doe Book Left Taken Our Children Remove Censorship Shelves

Author:Katherine Paterson

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

Ifs World Life Needs Children Motivational Joy Parent Nature Education Wonder Family Learning Teacher Alive Mystery Share Teaching Adults Our Children Parenting Educational Excitement Companionship Grandparent Great Teacher Being A Parent Grandpa Children And Parents Sense Of Wonder Children And Grandchildren Education And Teachers Mystery Of Life Parents And Grandparents School Education Keep Learning Teacher Student Children Learning Inspirational Teacher Teacher And Student Being A Teacher Parent Child Children Education Student Learning Parents And Teachers Children And Education Silent Spring Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Wonder Of The World Teachers Learning From Students Wonder Of Life Adult Education Inspirational Parenting Natural Life Wonder Of Nature Happy Grandparents Day Children And Nature Wonder And Mystery Wonderful Parents Adult Children Mystery Of Nature Adult Learning Kid At Heart

Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Giving Mean Children Parent Responsibility Accepting Generations Security Our Children African American Retirement Our Generation

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.”

Life Inspirational Mind Children Dream Resources Our Children Math Natural Resources

Author:Walt Disney

“Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.”

Children Art Stories Body Our Children

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

Inspirational Children Kids Our Children God Love My Children Small Things Small Child God Loves Us Baby Love Children And Love Love Our Children Precious Children

Author:Charles Dickens

“An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.”

Children Book Might Earth Teaching Television Murder Our Children Constant Radio Newspapers Cruelty Magazines Superstitions Consumerism Repetition Credulity Extraterrestrial

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.”

Children Hands Fire Our Children Warm Witness Burning Testimony Redeemer

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves”

Children Greater Our Children Insight Recognizing

Author:Margaret Mead

“we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.”

Feels Children Self Kids Understanding Support Easier Goodness Our Children Purity Pushing Have Faith Buttons Overwhelmed Innate Innate Goodness

Author:Katrina Kenison

“Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one.”

Firsts Children Wanted Kindness Saws Proud First Time Our Children Guts Apologizing Sweetness I Apologize

Author:Richard Matheson

“And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.”

Life Children Has Beens Said Book Life Is Lying Terrible Fairs Our Children Down And Bills Things To Do Terrible Things Not Fair

Author:William Goldman

“Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?”

Ifs Men World May Children Whole Government Spirit Nations Loses Liberty Blood Land Gains Our Children Constant Profit Whole World Legacy Prize Heritage Vigilance

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

“Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war--until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime”

Children War Ends Earth Joy Fall Lost Gone Forever Planets Sweet Police Our Children Ghost Pity Heels Sublime End Times Monotonous Cones

Book:Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

Source: Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

“I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.”

Knows Heart Children Ends Reason Our Children Neighbor No Reason Without Love

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”

“Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Should Wells Heart Kind Children Said Might Left Attention Tears Ready Demand Our Children Come Up Stranger Relief Breasts Uniforms Weary

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

World Children Father Willing Fool Our Children Raises Small Parts

Author:Barack Obama

“If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.”

Ifs Looks Children Light Together Joy Father Grows United Generations Eternal Tradition Our Children Our Family Glorious Righteous Units Everlasting Brighter Reap Lds Family Unit

Author:L. Tom Perry

“Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.”

Children Important Father Prayer Teaching Praying Eternal Draws Our Children Fundamentals

Author:L. Tom Perry

“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.”

Wells Children Ends Care Action Suffering Wish Depends Praying Lovers Illusion Our Children Surrender Thoughts And Actions Love And Care Illusion Of Control

Author:Jack Kornfield

“We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if we don't look, evil will go away, but to give them weapons against it.”

“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.”

“Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.”

Ifs World Children Shows Evil Pay Attention Hatred Opposites Our Children Indifference Noticing Greatest Love

Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal

“Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.”

Thinking May Children Has Beens War Self Enough Seems Humanity Sin Pay Race Steps Sacrifice Blood Blessing Flow Our Children Painful Punishment Every Step Self Sacrifice Ascent

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live”

Knows Children Long Mother Father Sacrifice Breaths Our Children Ghost Endurance Corpses Our Father

Book:She

Source: She

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

Children Might Age Moral Ethics Our Children Blind Spots Massive Blind Spots

Author:Bono

“There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.”

Children Philosophy Happens Certain Values Teach Virtue Our Children Passing Passings Phrases Our Time Typical Doubtful Value Of Education Passing On

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.”

Way Firsts Children Self Spiritual Courses Grows Sin Growing Up Influence Discipline Gains Labor Our Children Salvation Consideration Self Discipline Ascendancy

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.”

Children Pay Our Children Profit

Author:James A. Baldwin

“If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.”

Ifs World Should Children Family Teach Our Children

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?”

World Children Asks Consequence Resources Our Children

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.”

Giving Kind Children Helping Seems Water Born Lord Spring Angel Our Children Wilderness Jackals

Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Children Book War Might Military Our Children Terrorism Legacy Bombs Resolve Three Cups Of Tea

Book:Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

“We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.”

“Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants darkness to reign. Despite thise, we needn't worry or back away from our duty to our family (present or future), our community, or others, for God will always support and bless us in our honest efforts t odo His will. He wants us to suceed more than Satan wants us to fail- and God is always more powerful.”

Want Children Soul Community Powerful Effort Darkness Worry Support Failing Honest Duty Claims Our Children Gods Will Despite Our Family Satan Bless Reign Our Community

Author:John H. Groberg

“Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.”

Giving Children Parent Dog Cat Function Our Children Devotion

Author:Alex Shakar

“I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Wells Children I Can Ends Character Helping Names Poor Figures Harder Our Children Customs Unfortunate Sticky Fictional Character Tess Cordelia

Book:Emotionally Weird: A Novel

Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.”

Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”

Ifs Should Believe Children Life Is Desire Existence Sun Sea Sky Our Children Best Things Companion Embodiment Beacons Sea And Sky

Author:Patti Smith

“NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?”

“I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.”

People Needs Children Order Quality Practice Like You Goes On Capacity Our Children Calm Deeper Your Children Our Society Inviting

Author:Nhat Hanh

“It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children. One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one's mind: this is a temptation one must resist. In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: 'We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours.”

“Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.”

Source: Angels & Demons

“There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.”

Children Relationship Our Children Expected Obedience

Author:Anatole Broyard

“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.”

“The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.”

Ifs World Writing Children Real Happens Fun Fiction Cases Worst Criticism Our Children Science Fiction Novelists Real World Scenarios Sideways Unwritten Worst Case Scenario

Author:Bruce Sterling

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