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“You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.”

Wells Children Force Bed Our Children Your Children

“If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.”

Ifs Giving Wells May Children Education Our Children Bureaucrats

“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".”

“Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.”

Way Want Wells Children Our Children Including Hunger Hungry Performing Distracted Performing Well

Author:Arne Duncan

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”

“I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.”

Thinking Trying Years Wells Kind May Children Enough Use Together Lines Party Awareness Talent Highest Solutions Our Children Crisis Climate Fallen Behalf Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Al Gore

“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”

Thinking Firsts Wells Might Today Imagination Memories Childhood Essentials Adults Roots Our Children Extremes Instance Radical Feds Professionalism Eccentricity

Author:Edmund White

“What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.”

“Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.”

Trying Wells Children House Sleep Party Teach Groups Our Children Loud Your Children Campus

Author:Graham Nash

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something has gone wrong with the universe that's supposed to be perfect, we can demonstrate serenity and confidence in problem solving for our kids.By telling them that we know they have a problem and we know they can solve it, we can pass on a realistic attitude as well as empower our children with self-confidence and a sense of their own worth.”

“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.”

Wells Children Play Today Turns Sports Rooms Too Much Television Football Walking Exercise Our Children Seats Climbing Turn-on Stadiums Climbing Up

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.”

Thinking Wells Children Turns Evil Hope Names Causes Imagination Our Children This Life Thoughtful Elsewhere Our Thoughts Vengeance Better Life

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace -- that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that’s what matters. We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.”

“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.”

Needs Wells Children Ideas Feelings Certain Values Wish Parent Understanding Results Situation Produce Particular Ought Behavior Flow Relation Our Children Method Predictable

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.”

Should Wells Children Soul Parent Loss Lord Wife Progress Tears Development Sorrow Husband Gains Our Children Finished Our Time Accomplished March Loved Ones Shed Advancement Mourn

Author:Francis M. Lyman

“It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.”

Men Wells Children Enough Father Loses He Man Lovers Losing Our Children Your Children Companion Your Best Friend Losing Yourself

Book:Widow

Source: Widow

“When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.”

Wells Might Left Behinds Sea Childhood Rivers Our Children Leaving Fountain

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.”

Wells Marriage Wonderful Demand Illusion Our Children Supposed To Be Childlike

Author:Eda LeShan

“Is there someone who passively watches his children growing up? We constantly and maximally invest ourselves into our children to realize our vision of happiness. But not for us - for those children. It's not enough that we molest ourselves, so we have to molest the children as well.”

Wells Children Enough Happiness Realizing Vision Watches Growing Up Growing Our Children Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Ruben Papian

“When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.”

Firsts Wells Children Feelings School Past Parent First Time Our Children Separation Vulnerable Extras Our Past Earthquakes Nursery Nursery School

Author:Fred Rogers

“Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.”

Wells Children Sometimes Succeed Our Children Opposition Wipe

Author:Desmond Tutu

“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.”

Wells Children Doe Government Our Children Your Children Private Sector

Author:Neal Boortz

“As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.”

Way Wells Children Doe Together Parent Ability Healthy Activity Our Children Active Tendencies Joyful Contests Adversaries Sibling Energetic Rivalry Sibling Rivalry

Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent

“I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.”

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Author:Natasha Lyonne

“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

“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.”

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Author:Bucky Sinister

“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.”

“I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.”

Knows World Believe Wells Children Culture I Believe Know How Teaching Models Our Children Tables Dinner Discourse Adages Dinner Table Religion And Politics

Author:Julianna Baggott

“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.”

People Thinking Years Wells Children Bigs Lasts Three House Left Born My Own Four Childhood Quiet Died Our Children Nostalgia Echoes Happy Family

Author:Guy Maddin

“And, for example, like, when you're having the conversation with your child about getting their driver's license. Well, a white family - their biggest fear is just that you're driving safely and that they're minding the rules of the road, whereas a black family - their biggest fear is that their child is going to get pulled over and treated unfairly for a reason that they won't understand.”

Wells Children Reason Black White Example Conversation Our Children Driving Treated Your Children Drivers License Biggest Fear Black Family Treated Unfairly

Author:Regina King

“Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.”

Wells Children Important Environment Generations Our Children Welfare Future Generation

Author:Yaya Toure

“You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.”

Knows World Wells Children Parent Havens Expression Our Children Borrowed

Author:Jane Goodall

“Love is the key. Giving your children joy and happiness...when you give it to them, you will receive it as well.”

Giving Wells Children Joy Love Is Keys Our Children Your Children Joy And Happiness

Author:DJ Khaled

“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.”

“You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.”

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Author:Frank Serpico

“We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.”

People Should Wells Children Concern Our Children Aim Be Good Ethical Manifest Good People Concern For Others

Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

“Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.”

Wells Children Home School Community Habit Eating Commitment Our Children Access Well Being Dependent Promoting Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Rod Blagojevich

“For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.”

Wells Children Economic Planets Our Children Sake Priorities Well Being Grandchildren Positive Energy Children And Grandchildren Top Priorities

Author:David Suzuki

“The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.”

People Thinking Way Wells Children Seems America Emotional Expectations Our Children Well Being Toxic Emotional Well Being

Author:Andrew Weil

“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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Berg

“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'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.”

“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

“Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.”

Wells Children School Community Responsibility Politician Our Children Bright Future Future Is Bright

Author:Michael N. Castle

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

“And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.”

Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs

“Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!”

Thinking Wells Children Done Our Children Parenting Your Children Well Done Complement

Author:Kevin Heath

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