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“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets”

Children Regret Our Children Justification

“Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.”

World Children Doe Nations Community Teaching Conscience Our Children Flesh Locals Ease Changing The World Farms Factories Leafs Local Community Family Farms

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.”

“Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?”

Want Needs Children Care Today Given Changed Divine Mercy Our Children Debt Need God Love Our Children

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The visions we offer our children shape the future.”

Children Vision Offers Shapes Our Children

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”

Ifs Way Children Failing Teaching Failure Our Children My Children American Way Of Life

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to find an answer for every why — Why do we do this? Why don’t we do that? — and often there isn’t a good one. So you say, simply, because. Or you tell a story that you know isn’t true. And whether or not your face reddens, you blush. The shame of parenthood — which is a good shame — is that we want our children to be more whole than we are, to have satisfactory answers.”

Knows Want Needs Children Whole Stories Faces Parent Answers Inspire Shame Our Children Hypocrisy Paradox Your Face Parenthood Exposed Being A Parent Parent Child

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives”

Trying Children Made Different Girl Boys Heard Flower Adults Decided Our Children Seeking Compromise Hated Rejection Frightened Laughed Mistaken Hollow Hippie Hideous Boy And Girl Hippi

Author:June Jordan

“There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.”

Ifs Should Looks Children Faces Mother Wonder Our Lives Broken Baby Mets Should Have Our Children I Realized Legion

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.”

Ifs Children Change Results Teach Our Children

Author:Stephen Covey

“Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?”

Children Made Views Security Return Our Children Painful Compromise Why Not Offering Negotiation Priceless Concessions Security And Freedom

Author:Abdallah II

“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.”

Ifs Children Attention Inspire Garden Paid Our Children Plant Parenting Weed Jungle Concrete Jungle

Author:Luther Burbank

“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”

World Children Doe Book Kids Father Difficult Deals Darkness Issues Ignorance Protect Opposites Our Children Vulnerable Censorship Censoring Censoring Books

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”

“We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.”

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”

Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Taught Regard Our Children Parenting Delicate Truthful Casual Adamant

Book:Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship

Source: Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship

“You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.”

Heart Children Happens Eye Given Space Laughing Happened Arms Our Children Crowds Curse Chests Laughed Her Eyes Backwards Veils Cousin Weasley Sirius Gloating Molly Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.”

Ifs Giving Mind Looks Children Ideas Deserve Give Me Our Children Stubborn

Book:Night Game

Source: Night Game

“We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others to get a breath-quickening glimpse of the queen in her ritual procession, and confess to the priests and attend church. And we wonder why, with all this power capital drawn from so many sources, we are deeply anxious about the meaning of our lives. The reason is plain enough: none of these, nor all of them taken together, represents an integrated world conception into which we fit ourselves with pure belief and trust.”

“There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.”

World Children Helping Universe Force Mankind Materials Capable Our Children Providing Stirring Explosives Tin Muffins Standardization Regimentation

Book:A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

Source: A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”

Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

“Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends will continue to press every button we have, until we realize what it is that we don't want to know about ourselves, yet. They will point us to our freedom every time.”

Knows Want Children Parent Realizing Family Our Children Presses Buttons Spouse Katie

Book:Question Your Thinking, Change the World

Source: Question Your Thinking, Change the World

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Our Children Parenting Plenty Heartache Fatherhood Headache

Book:John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people

Source: John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”

World Way Children Parent Effort Transformation Our Children Raises Parenting Saving Radical Save The World

Book:A Woman's Worth

Source: A Woman's Worth

“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.”

Knows Children Important Hands Remember Courses Evil Left Watches Our Children Aim Factors Flight Certainty Destination Stability Bows Nevertheless Arrows Thrust Unwavering

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.”

World Needs Children Age Faces Grows Growing Up Our Children Scary Alternatives More Knowledge

Book:Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

“When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.”

Children Suffering Grows Teach Teaching Discipline Our Children

Book:The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.”

Thinking Want Children Matter Kids Turns Perfect Our Children Bounds Spectacular Disappoint

Book:The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts

Source: The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts

“Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.”

Knows Want Heart Children Said Soul Wanted Break Love You Danger Son Fool England Our Children Queens Princess Mary Carpenter My Princess

Author:Philippa Gregory

“We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.”

Children Said Our Children

Book:Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.”

Thinking World Children Mother Our Children Sweetest

Book:The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)

Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)

“We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.”

Needs Heart Children Jobs Mother Choices Hurt Bears Protect Our Children Need You

Book:The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

“What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods. May your bravery and courage be remembers in song and story, May your parents be proud, and ma our children carry your birthright. Sleep, and wander no more.”

Source: Courting Darkness: An Otherworld Novel

“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.”

“Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.”

People Way Children Long Dream Parent Practice Risk Difficulty Our Children Blame Your Dreams Pleasant Frustration Realising Spouse Our Dreams

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?”

May Children Littles Enough Next Cutting Eating Our Children Fundamentals Plant Curiosity Winter Seeds Driven Corn Cutting Off

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

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

“The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.”

Should Children Happens Opportunity Hours Vision Stage Unique Our Children Plant Casts Seeds Significant Sunday Monday Closing Orators Pms Unique Opportunities

Author:Andy Stanley

“When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”

Should Children Fit Treats Our Children Property Treated Abortion Pro Life Degrading Against Abortion Pro Choice Abortion

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.”

Children Self Dream Vision Future Offers Shapes Our Children Maps Fulfilling Prophecy Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.”

Children Order Grows Growing Up Alive Our Children Expecting Harmonious

Book:Mother Night: A Novel

Source: Mother Night: A Novel

“Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.”

Giving Children Lord Our Children

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.”

Children Used Parent Behinds Gone Generations Figures Our Children Command Tick Spirited Riddance Good Riddance

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?”

People Children Growth Animal Player Strange Baseball Our Children Upset Dozen Feeding Hormones Baseball Player Growth Hormones

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”

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Author:Chief Seattle

“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.”

Humans Children Self Technology Greater Talent Possibility Our Children Missions Contentment

Book:What Technology Wants

Source: What Technology Wants

“Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.”

Children Parent Our Children Sequels

Author:Ashok K. Banker

“We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.”

Mind May Mean Children Littles Has Beens Action Girl Teach Rocks Behavior Our Children Raises Reactions Tendencies Boat Thirty Really Mean

Author:Martha Stout

“We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.”

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