Best our-children & grows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's a difficult position. Do you endanger your child to fight for the right thing, or do you keep your mouth shut and let your child grow up in a world where their natural rights are stripped away from them?”

World Children Fighting Grows Difficult Natural Growing Up Rights Position Mouths Our Children Your Children Right Thing Natural Rights

Author:Jamie Bell

“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.”

People Want Children Said Grows Growing Up Land Our Children Prosperity Fats Cattle

Author:Jomo Kenyatta

“The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"”

Way Want Children Grows Growing Up Adults Our Children Your Children Right Way

Author:Brené Brown

“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.”

“And while we destroy / Our children will grow / Not missing the things they'll never know / A crime against them / Against you and me / A crime against all humanity”

Knows Children Humanity Grows Missing Crime Our Children

Author:Kim Wilde

“I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.”

Want Firsts Children Country Grows Growing Up Four Our Children Amendments First Amendment

Author:Frank Zappa

“We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.”

Should Children Next Grows Growing Up Crime Our Children Poison Parks

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.”

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.”

Ifs Men Giving May Children Ends Earth Christian Lasts Universe Stars Grows Century Regard Our Children Tired Ships Worms Jumping Adventurous Harbour Jumping Off

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us.”

Ifs Children Might Grows Growing Up Love You Please Our Children Your Children Not Sure Love Your Children

Book:Role Models

Source: Role Models

“The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.”

People World Children Art Film Strong Grows Common Safe Our Children Hopefully Barriers Offering Nurture Avenues Cultural Barriers

Author:Carson Grant

“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

“I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.”

Knows Feels Children Ends Fighting Father Grows Know How Growing Up One Day Lonely Our Children Vulnerable Miserable Your Children Vigilant Lonely Women

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

People World Should Children Book Stories Running Young Reading Left Grows Growing Up Four Written Hero Our Children Features Abandoned Running Away Ignored Orphan Children's Books Dickens

Author:John Boyne

“Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”

Want Children Grows Growing Up Adults Our Children Your Children

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.”

“A conscious parent is not one who seeks to fix her child or seek to produce or create the 'perfect' child. This is not about perfection. The conscious parent understands that is journey has been undertaken, this child has been called forth to 'raise the parent' itself. To show the parent where the parent has yet to grow. This is why we call our children into our lives.”

Children Has Beens Shows Grows Parent Perfect Our Lives Journey Produce Conscious Perfection Our Children Raises Perfect Child

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.”

Ifs Children Feelings Reality Action Grows Focus Plans Personality Healthy Capacity Tests Our Children Mood Impulse Your Children Concentration Integrating

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“The meaning of self-esteem is to feel lovable and capable. As parents, we must love our children unconditionally and give them a sense of being nurtured. That's the lovable part. Then, we must provide structure - rules, boundaries, daily or weekly household tasks that give them a sense they are making a contribution. That's what helps kids grow up feeling capable.”

Giving Feels Children Self Helping Feelings Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Self Esteem Capable Tasks Our Children Structure Boundaries Esteem Contribution Household Lovable Love Our Children

Author:Jack Canfield

“Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions... Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.”

“Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.”

Children Character Remember Strong Grows Sound Goal Growing Up Ultimate Our Children Secure Your Children Ultimate Goal Strong Love

Author:Gary Chapman

“I have always admired organizations that help children grow and learn, and organizations that protect and shelter children when no one else does. And I wanted to draw attention to these organizations and recognize the contributions they were making to the country and to our children in particular.”

Children Doe Country Helping Wanted Grows Attention Particular Protect Draws Organization Our Children Contribution Shelter

Author:Laura Bush

“One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?”

World Should Years Children Able Grows Millions Growing Up Like You Unique Our Children Harm

Author:Pablo Casals

“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”

Ifs Mind Children Littles Seems Culture Given Grows Creativity Greater Materials Tradition Encouragement Our Children Entertainment Critical Instruction

Author:C. Sommerville

“Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.”

Children Grows Growing Up Our Children Sacred Confused

Author:Charles Wesley

“In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.”

Wells Children Country Individual Grows Responsibility Poverty Growing Up Despair Our Children Priorities Well Being Great Country

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When we believe in our child fully, we trust that they are doing the very best they can at every moment, given their age, past experience and present circumstances. It is this kind of trust that I mean when I talk about parenting being on their child's side. Having someone dependably 'on their side' is absolutely critical if a child is to grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. If we aren't on their side, who will be?”

Ifs Believe Kind Mean Children Moments Age Past Given Grows Sides Circumstances Capacity Our Children Critical Generous Adulthood Past Experiences Love And Trust

Author:Jan Hunt

“We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.”

Ifs Needs Children Helping Force Grows Parent Our Lives Willing Our Children Permanent Urges Our Love Being A Parent Love Our Children

Author:Judith Viorst

“Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”

Thinking Knows Men Should Children Would Be Together Political Asks Politics Grows Known Growing Up Too Much Magic Should Have Our Children Legends Be A Man Should Have Known

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.”

Needs Children Done Care Able School Mother Grows Activity Rain Rivers Our Children Medicine Coffee Income Forests Burning Your Children Hospitals Protected Charcoal Logging Good Coffee

Author:Wangari Maathai

“If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.”

Ifs Giving Heart Children Grows Break Growing Up Broken Our Children Your Children

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."”

Ifs Want Children Home Grows Mistake Love You Dangerous Arms Mouths Our Children Your Children Coming Home I Want You One Love Say I Love You

Author:Maya Angelou

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”

Children Problem Today Grows Growing Up Depends Tomorrow Solutions Adults Our Children

Author:Margaret Mead

“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

“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.”

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“[I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)”

Needs Kind Children Grows Understanding Support Comfort Adults Resources Our Children Introduction Hopefulness

Book:Mr Rogers Parenting

Source: Mr Rogers Parenting

“As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.”

“Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.”

Want Trying Mean Children Pain America Grows Growing Up Sky Cry Our Children Clouds Legs Psychological Civil Rights Your Children Inferiority Cripples Civil Rights Leaders

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”

“Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.”

“Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is the most important responsibility you can have. God wants us to have a loving relationship with our kids and help them grow...just like God's relationship with us.”

Want Firsts Children Important Helping Care Kids Father Given Grows Responsibility Our Children Your Children Fatherhood Want U Being A Father Loving Relationships

Author:John Harbaugh

“Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.”

Ifs Needs Kind Children Two Hands School Fighting Names Nations Grows Challenges Cities Hell Growing Up Happenings Decided Our Children Activist Inner City Inner City Schools

Author:Jonathan Kozol

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