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“It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or thinking narrowly, in ways noone else can. You can either lose your mind and your authenticity in the process of reacting to all that stuff, or you can use it as the perfect opportunity to grow and nourish your children by attending to what is deepest and best in them and in yourself.”

Thinking Way Mind Looks Children Use Opportunity Grows Stuff Process Loses Lines Perfect Interesting Masters Our Children Fingers Authenticity Your Children Reacting Attending Zen Master

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children’s development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child’s struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults.”

“My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.”

Needs Children School Effort Taught Activity Increase Encouragement Our Children Fruit Diets Vegetables Nurse Fruits And Vegetables Physical Fitness School Nurse

Author:Lois Capps

“Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.”

Children Peace Our Children Greatest Gifts

Author:Jon Jones

“I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.”

Wells May Children Reality Father Parent Depends Our Children Institutions Slavery Feminist Granted Stability Cynical Arrangements Family Life Misandry Concubines

Author:Sylvia Fraser

“One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.”

Children Four Abuse Our Children Seven Population Significant Proportion Classroom Child Abuse

Author:Wendy Craig

“You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach”

Children Play Values Realizing Basketball Our Children Coaches Your Children Coaching Nba Children Playing

Author:Don Meyer

“It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.”

Should Children War Government Our Lives Our Children All Time Enjoyed Civil War Free Government

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.”

Children War Enjoy Struggle Involved Our Children Privilege Enjoyed My Children Your Children Civil War Contests

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.”

Life Looks May Children War Bigs Happens Father House White Our Children Witness Your Children Civil War White House

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]”

Ifs Mean Children Persons Important Helping Kids House Differences Wife Husband Behavior Forgiveness Our Children Forgiving Available Your Children Kicks Bad Behavior

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts.”

Firsts Children Cutting Our Children Budgets Your Children Budget Cuts

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.”

World Writing Children Book Like You Months Six Our Children Nine Your Children Pounds Manuscripts Nine Months

Author:Edna Buchanan

“It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.”

Children Long Parent Realizing Duty Protect Our Children Overdue

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.”

“Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do it, you're in sin; you are in sin. And if you turn it over to a Sunday school teacher, you are in sin. And you are to be teaching these children more than just stories about animals that went into Noah's ark. You're to be teaching them about God, about radical depravity, about blood atonement, about propitiation, expiation, justification, sanctification; you are to teach your children!”

“Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?”

Thinking Children School Lying Hours Color Our Children Your Children Sunday Secular Public School Ark Sunday School Noah's Ark

Author:Paul Washer

“If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.”

Ifs Children Prayer Habit Our Children Train Your Children

Book:The Duties of Parents

Source: The Duties of Parents

“If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.”

Ifs Thinking Children Happened Our Children Bills Clinton Your Children Bob Routes

Author:Bob Dole

“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.”

Children Stills Whole Feelings Body Spirit Accepting Childhood Our Children Bills Excuse Intellect Compromise Confused Someday Conception Deceived Medication No Compromise

Author:Alice Miller

“We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.”

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Author:Jim Clyburn

“I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I do think those people will have to answer to God who will say, “You allowed your anger to destroy the relationship of your child to the other parent? Isn't that why I gave you a conscience?”

People Thinking Children Parent Sin Answers Conscience Our Children Your Children Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Author:Dennis Prager

“Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.”

Children Choices Company Watches Our Children Company We Keep

Author:Thomas Carper

“Don't indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.”

Thinking Children Theory Our Children Your Children Experts Indulge Think Of You

Author:Stephen Harper

“Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.”

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.”

Ifs Children Stills Country Would Be Father Belief Built Ideals Our Children Raises Founding Better Place Our Founding Fathers Places To Live Dynasty

Author:Phil Robertson

“Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.”

People Children Said Different Life Is Suffering Answers Disease Benefits Research Our Children Cures Cells Stem Stem Cell Stem Cell Research Life Is Precious Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Author:Nancy Reagan

“I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or things that happened to us that affected our lives, things we can laugh about and shed a few tears about... I think storytelling is a way of saying 'I love you. I love you enough to tell you something that means a great deal to me.'”

“And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.”

Littles War Childhood Our Children Dresses Bills Rehearsal Butchers

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.”

Children Care Jobs Realizing Wife Our Children My Wife Amy Great Job Take Care Of Me Melissa

Author:Robin Yount

“All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.”

Thinking Firsts Moments Alive Childhood First Time Our Children Early Childhood Where We Come

Author:Rita Dove

“You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.”

Firsts May Children Passion Born Unique Our Children Your Children

Author:Raymond E. Feist

“Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.”

“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.”

Way Believe Humans Children Form I Believe Imagination One Thing Source Achievement Our Children Educate

Author:Ken Robinson

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

Way Remember Our Lives Childhood Our Children Determined

Author:James Hillman

“Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.”

Children Funny Our Children Your Children Wellness Funny Money Funny Bumper Sticker Money Isn't Everything Worrying About Money

Author:J. Paul Getty

“How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.”

Feels Years Wells Children Play Roles Pressure Our Children Significant Handle Your Children Peers Peer Pressure Peer Group

Author:Kevin Leman

“The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.”

Children School President Promise Our Children Reform Fulfilled Adequate Funding President Bush Reformation Education Reform

Author:Joe Lieberman

“In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night”

Children Night Left Our Children Celebrate Giants Australia Eggs Chocolate Easter Rabbits Bunnies Chocolate Eggs Bunny Rabbits

Author:Bill Hicks

“You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.”

Want Children States School Share Taxes Our Children Selfish Firm Your Children

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.”

Ifs Children Grows Our Children Tall

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of nothing; we have not had to pay for it with our lives. But it would be a grave mistake to think that freedom requires nothing of us. Each of us has to earn freedom anew in order to possess it. We do so not just for our own sake, but for the sake of our children, so that they may build a better future that will sustain over the world the responsibilities and blessings of freedom.”

Thinking World May Children Has Beens Would Be Today Order Pay Mistake Responsibility Our Lives Blessing Our Children West Sake Graves Fortunate Better Future

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.”

Stories Past Stuff Deals Childhood Drama Our Children Slave Our Past Rise Above Rise Above It

Author:Robert Crais

“Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.”

Children School Used Pay Class Teach Learning Wife Taxes Behavior Murder Our Children Dollars Scary Grades Acceptable Infant Elderly Cannibalism Grades In School Tax Dollars Swapping

Author:Jesse Helms

“Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.”

“All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.”

“Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.”

Knows Children God Stories Age Young Universe Beauty Teach Concepts Our Children Incredibles Astronomy Scripture Glorious Comforting Young Age Richness Teaching Children Smart Women

Author:Carolyn Porco

“It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.”

“If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well”

Ifs Wells Children Moving Protect Our Children Copyright

Author:Barbara Boxer

“I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.”

Children Matter Kids Funny Next Parent One Thing Stage Our Children No Matter What Your Children Sarcasm Sarcastic

Author:Dave Barry

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