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“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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.”

“The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail.”

“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Children Earth Joy Peace Nature Realizing Education Beauty Teach Forever Environment Honor Future Our Children Peace And Love

Book:An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

Source: An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections

“The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions. Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time. The mandate is not to be perfect and raise happy children. Perfection doesn't exist, and I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

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

“Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words—like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.”

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.”

Ifs Children Fine Future Our Children Noble Substance Phrases Sentiments Nobility Adequate Machinery

Author:J. William Fulbright

“If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.”

Ifs Believe Children Use Earth Faces Next Responsibility Knowledge Generations Mankind Succeed Our Children Add Your Children Thrive Have Faith Wiser Next Generation Transmit

Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.”

Source: Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers

“You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.”

“If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.”

Ifs Trying Children Turns Teach Weakness Our Children Parenting Your Children

Author:Kevin Heath

“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.”

People Ifs World Believe Children Enough I Believe Society Involved Concerned Our Children Get Involved

Author:Benjamin Spock

“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.”

“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.”

Author:John Templeton

“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”

“If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.”

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Author:Jane Clayson Johnson

“The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”

Ifs Want Needs Children Character Form Spirituality Consciousness Teach Angel Deserve Our Children Admire Admiration Traits Allegiance

Book:The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

Source: The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

“...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us.”

Ifs Want Children Culture Opportunity Parent Water Community Air Drink Civilization Dignity Our Children Breathe Obligation Landscape Infrastructure Enrichment

Author:Robert Kennedy

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate....Try science.”

Ifs Want Trying Children Religion Praying Our Children Atheist Your Children Polio

Author:Carl Sagan

“Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.”

Ifs Wells Heart Children Sometimes Mother Language Prayer Our Children Your Children Our Prayers

Book:Prevailing Prayer

Source: Prevailing Prayer

“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”

Ifs Children Prayer Praying Our Children Ark

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their appreciation of their obligation to others.”

Ifs Children Teach Our Children Parenting Appreciation Obligation Our Society Fabric

Author:Clarence Page

“35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.”

People Ifs Knows Children War Country Next Poor Millions Society Our Children Hunger Hungry Usa Meals World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger For Food Food Banks Hunger Awareness

Author:Jeff Bridges

“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.”

“We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.”

“You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.”

Ifs Trying Children Father Dad Our Children Your Children Fatherhood Halfway Your Dad Being A Father Great Father Being A Dad

Author:Robert Breault

“I've never struggled with that at all....in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.”

Ifs Children States Faces Justice Crazy Crime Citizens Involved Ultimate Police Our Children Texas Officers Police Officer

Author:Rick Perry

“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”

People Ifs Children House Parent Family Lucky Our Children Blessed Your Children Children And Parents

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Kind Children Helping Christian Sin Blessing All Things Crosses Our Children Christian Life Your Children Goods Lament Chastisement

Author:William Whately

“Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.”

“If you talk to your children, you can help them keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.”

Ifs Children Helping Dream Together Our Children Your Children Life Together Future Dreams

Author:Jim Rohn

“I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.”

“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”

Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House

“...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we permit the climate to continue to warm at an unsustainable rate, and if we keep on doing what we're doing until we're out of oil and we haven't made the transition, then it's inconceivable to me that our children and grandchildren will be able to maintain the American way of life and that the world won't be much fuller of resource-based wars of all kinds.”

“Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime. [On keeping guns]”

Ifs Knows Should Children Country Shows Used Know How Crime Gun Should Have Police Our Children Stores Your Children Grandchildren License

Author:Michael D. Barnes

“If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.”

Ifs Writing Children Hurt Planets Cold Our Children Cancer Cures Your Children Cracks Symphony Hurt Me Fusion You Hurt Me

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their lives and not the ones I would have planned for them. But I have learned that their lives are theirs, not mine, and in living their own lives they have given me experiences and an education I would never have had if I'd been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.”

Ifs Should Children Done Enough Today Given Interest Mines Fool Letting Go Our Children Wide Range I Have Learned Amazed

Author:Bernie Siegel

“I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.”

Ifs Thinking Life Mind Kind Children Art Real Feelings Past Culture Technology Drug Tests Our Children Western Atmosphere Lacking Ecosystems Rest Of Life

Author:Terence McKenna

“If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.”

Ifs Love Life Children Truth Order Forget Meditation Wife Husband Our Children Your Children Truth Of Life Far Away Our Relationship Neighbour Your Husband Truth Love

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.”

Ifs Want Children Reason Father Behinds Our Children Clever Your Children Crush Idealism Remarks

Author:Prince Charles

“We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.”

Ifs Inspirational Children Facts Our Children

Author:Dorothy Height

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