A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.
- Mark Twain
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?
- King Abdullah Ii
Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.
- Keith Ablow
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.
- Chinua Achebe
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
- John Adams
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
- John Adams
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
- Ronald Reagan
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.
- Ronald Reagan
Our children's children will hear a good story.
- Richard Adams
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman
Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
- Anna Akhmatova
..and 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 realize our dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and 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 realize our dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.
- Jodi Picoult
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.
- Jodi Picoult
We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.
- Jodi Picoult
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.
- Jodi Picoult
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world...
- Louisa May Alcott
Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.
- Louisa May Alcott
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
- Christopher Alexander
Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
- Sherman Alexie
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
- John Ruskin
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
- Richard V Allen
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.
- Tom Allen
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
- Tom Allen
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
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to the ground. We will kill you, your families, your neighbors, your pets, and anyone who will stand in our path. An attack on my family will not go unpunished.
- Ilona Andrews
You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
- Patricia Briggs
You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
- Maya Angelou
Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when you celebrate your holidays! Demand more of yourselves! Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call "happiness" are not over here or over there, they are only "within yourselves.
- Hermann Hesse
You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines.
- Sharron Angle
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
- Plato
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.
- Kate Atkinson
What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.
- Steve Maraboli
All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.
- Joe Baca
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
- Joe Baca
Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
- Joe Baca
When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.
- Kevin Bacon
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
- Michael Badnarik
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility the undiscovered land in the most distant sea. For that I bid your sails search and search. In your children you shall make up for being the children of your fathers: thus shall you redeem all that is past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
- James Baldwin
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
- Lucille Ball
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
- J G Ballard
Our obsession with each other was like the isolation that comes with great pain; it was like extreme sadness. Without our children we might have never discovered our differences, which is what has made our abiding love for each other possible.
- Russell Banks
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
- Joseph Barbera
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.
- Michael D Barnes
You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
- Roseanne Barr
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
- Dave Barry
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
- Melissa Bean
Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?
- Emmanuelle Beart
It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
- Glenn Beck
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.
- Desmond Tutu
Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again. No, Mrs. Crawford, I don't think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price - which we may not live to see but which our children's children will inherit.
- L M Montgomery
Without shedding of blood there is no anything... Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again... I don't think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children's children will inherit.
- L M Montgomery
When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.
- John Steinbeck
It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
- Elizabeth Berg
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.
- Thornton Wilder
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
- Bruno Bettelheim
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
- Judy Biggert
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.
- Rod Blagojevich
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
- Tony Blair
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
- William Peter Blatty
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
- Bono
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
- Cory Booker
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.
- Simon Van Booy
Go home.' Montag fixed his eyes upon her, quietly. 'Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozens of abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it? Go home, go home!' he yelled.
- Ray Bradbury
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
- Barbara Boxer
I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?"
I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other.
- Madeleine L Engle
{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'.
- Madeleine L Engle
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
- Carol Moseley Braun
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
- Carol Moseley Braun
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.
- Kate Braverman
Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.
- Morgan Brittany
What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you
- Michael Scott
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
- Barbara Bush
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- John F Kennedy
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
- Pierce Brosnan
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
- David R Brower
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
- H Jackson Brown Jr
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
- H Jackson Brown Jr
As a good parent or teacher, we should teach our children that failure is an opportunity for improvement and growth, rather than a blockade deterring us from our greatest potential.
- Asa Don Brown
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation... these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.
- Dan Brown
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
- Red Cloud
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
- Tammy Bruce
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose "the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere"?
- William Jennings Bryan
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
- Bill Bryson
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
- George Bernard Shaw
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
- Sitting Bull
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
- Sitting Bull
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.
- Luther Burbank
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.
- Grant Morrison
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
- Levar Burton
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
- Levar Burton
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
- Levar Burton
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
- George W Bush
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
- Dan Quayle
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales..
- Albert Einstein
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
- Albert Einstein
If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them MORE fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
- Louis C K
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
- Carly Fiorina
It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.
- Rachel Caine
Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
- Mary Calderone
I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.
- David Cameron
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.
- Lois Capps
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.
- Orson Scott Card
It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
- Orson Scott Card
It sends out a very clear message: Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
- Suzanne Collins
I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.
- Suzanne Collins
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
- Suzanne Collins
It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.
- Dennis Cardoza
The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
- Dennis Cardoza
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
- Duane G Carey
Don't just teach your children to read...
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.
- George Carlin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin
The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
- Philip Carr Gomm
We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
- Dixie Carter
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.
- Kiera Cass
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.
- Michael N Castle
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.
The Killer Hook
- Michael Chabon
Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
- Francis Chan
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
- Joan Chen
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
- Marian Wright Edelman
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
- Chris Chocola
Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
- Clayton Christensen
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
- Clayton Christensen
It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell. If these stories are unwritten, then how are your children going to know of their parentage?
- Linda Weaver Clarke
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J Clinton
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
- Hillary Clinton
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
- Hillary Clinton
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.
- Jim Clyburn
I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.
- Tom Coburn
The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
- Johnnie Cochran
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- Sun Tzu
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A Heinlein
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
- Barbara Coloroso
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
- Barbara Coloroso
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
- Robbie Coltrane
Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
- Perry Como
Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney Company
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney Company
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
- Walt Disney
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
- Cat Cora
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
- Robert Cormier
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.
- Kelly Corrigan
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.
- Jim Costa
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
- Kevin Costner
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
- Stephen Covey
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
- Marcelene Cox
It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
- William Lane Craig
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
- Wendy Craig
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
- Michael Crapo
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
- Cindy Crawford
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
- Elijah Cummings
There is nothing you will regret more in your life nothing than not being present for your children
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
- William Feather
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
- Roald Dahl
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
- Blythe Danner
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
- Richard Dawkins
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
- Artur Davis
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.
- Frank Delaney
...dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
- John Green
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.
- Daniel Dennett
If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.
- David Dewhurst
Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.
- Joan Didion
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.
- Joan Didion
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller
These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
- John Dillinger
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
- James C Dobson
We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
- Christopher Dodd
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
- Christopher Dodd
Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying territory that seems to them entirely new. They push back the darkness; they scatter memories behind them like bread crumbs. The world is remade.
- Anthony Doerr
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.
- Bob Dole
Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.
- Jennifer Donnelly
All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
- Byron Dorgan
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.
- Rita Dove
- Mark Twain
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?
- King Abdullah Ii
Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.
- Keith Ablow
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.
- Chinua Achebe
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
- John Adams
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
- John Adams
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
- Ronald Reagan
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.
- Ronald Reagan
Our children's children will hear a good story.
- Richard Adams
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman
Do not blame your parents for not working hard enough to birth you with silver spoon in your mouth because tomorrow you will be a parent and your children will in turn blame you for not giving birth to them with the desired silver spoon.
- Jaachynma N E Agu
Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
- Anna Akhmatova
..and 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 realize our dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and 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 realize our dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a big brand on his forehead to warn us away. Criminals sit next to us on the bus. They pack our groceries and cash our paychecks for us and teach our children. They look no different from you or me. And that's why they get away with it.
- Jodi Picoult
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.
- Jodi Picoult
We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.
- Jodi Picoult
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.
- Jodi Picoult
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world...
- Louisa May Alcott
Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.
- Louisa May Alcott
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
- Christopher Alexander
Sir, in your thirty-nine years as a parent, you broke your children's hearts, collectively and individually, 612 times and you did this without ever striking any human being in anger. Does this absence of physical violence make you a better man than you might otherwise have been?
- Sherman Alexie
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
- John Ruskin
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
- Richard V Allen
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.
- Tom Allen
I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.
- Tom Allen
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
- Laurie Halse Anderson
Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to the ground. We will kill you, your families, your neighbors, your pets, and anyone who will stand in our path. An attack on my family will not go unpunished.
- Ilona Andrews
You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.
- Patricia Briggs
You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
- Maya Angelou
Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when you celebrate your holidays! Demand more of yourselves! Love and joy and the mysterious thing we call "happiness" are not over here or over there, they are only "within yourselves.
- Hermann Hesse
You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines.
- Sharron Angle
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- Kofi Annan
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
- Plato
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.
- Kate Atkinson
What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.
- Steve Maraboli
All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.
- Joe Baca
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
- Joe Baca
Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.
- Joe Baca
When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.
- Kevin Bacon
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
- Michael Badnarik
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's land shall you love: this love shall be your new nobility the undiscovered land in the most distant sea. For that I bid your sails search and search. In your children you shall make up for being the children of your fathers: thus shall you redeem all that is past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
- James Baldwin
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
- Lucille Ball
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
- J G Ballard
Our obsession with each other was like the isolation that comes with great pain; it was like extreme sadness. Without our children we might have never discovered our differences, which is what has made our abiding love for each other possible.
- Russell Banks
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
- Joseph Barbera
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.
- Michael D Barnes
You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
- Roseanne Barr
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
- Dave Barry
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
- Melissa Bean
Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?
- Emmanuelle Beart
It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
- Glenn Beck
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.
- Desmond Tutu
Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again. No, Mrs. Crawford, I don't think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price - which we may not live to see but which our children's children will inherit.
- L M Montgomery
Without shedding of blood there is no anything... Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again... I don't think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children's children will inherit.
- L M Montgomery
When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.
- John Steinbeck
It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
- Elizabeth Berg
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.
- Thornton Wilder
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
- Bruno Bettelheim
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
- Judy Biggert
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.
- Rod Blagojevich
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
- Tony Blair
Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
- William Peter Blatty
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
- Bono
You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
- Cory Booker
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.
- Simon Van Booy
Go home.' Montag fixed his eyes upon her, quietly. 'Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozens of abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarian sections, too, and your children who hate your guts! Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it? Go home, go home!' he yelled.
- Ray Bradbury
If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
- Barbara Boxer
I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, "What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children?"
I answered immediately and without thinking, "We love each other.
- Madeleine L Engle
{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'.
- Madeleine L Engle
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.
- Carol Moseley Braun
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
- Carol Moseley Braun
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.
- Kate Braverman
Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.
- Morgan Brittany
What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you
- Michael Scott
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
- Barbara Bush
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- John F Kennedy
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
- Pierce Brosnan
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
- David R Brower
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
- H Jackson Brown Jr
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
- H Jackson Brown Jr
As a good parent or teacher, we should teach our children that failure is an opportunity for improvement and growth, rather than a blockade deterring us from our greatest potential.
- Asa Don Brown
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation... these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.
- Dan Brown
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
- Red Cloud
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
- Tammy Bruce
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose "the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere"?
- William Jennings Bryan
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
- Bill Bryson
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
- George Bernard Shaw
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
- Sitting Bull
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
- Sitting Bull
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.
- Luther Burbank
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.
- Grant Morrison
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
- Levar Burton
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
- Levar Burton
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
- Levar Burton
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
- George W Bush
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
- Dan Quayle
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales..
- Albert Einstein
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
- Albert Einstein
If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them MORE fairy tales.
- Albert Einstein
A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
- Louis C K
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
- Carly Fiorina
It's written in our DNA somewhere: our children first, the rest of the world second.
- Rachel Caine
Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
- Mary Calderone
I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue.
- David Cameron
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.
- Lois Capps
It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.
- Orson Scott Card
It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.
- Orson Scott Card
It sends out a very clear message: Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
- Suzanne Collins
I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.
- Suzanne Collins
Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.
- Suzanne Collins
It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.
- Dennis Cardoza
The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
- Dennis Cardoza
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
- Duane G Carey
Don't just teach your children to read...
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.
- George Carlin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin
The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children
- Philip Carr Gomm
We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
- Dixie Carter
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.
- Kiera Cass
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.
- Michael N Castle
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.
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- Michael Chabon
Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
- Francis Chan
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
- Joan Chen
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
- Marian Wright Edelman
If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.
- Chris Chocola
Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
- Clayton Christensen
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
- Clayton Christensen
It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell. If these stories are unwritten, then how are your children going to know of their parentage?
- Linda Weaver Clarke
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J Clinton
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
- Hillary Clinton
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
- Hillary Clinton
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.
- Jim Clyburn
I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.
- Tom Coburn
The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
- Johnnie Cochran
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
- Sun Tzu
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- Robert A Heinlein
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
- Barbara Coloroso
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
- Barbara Coloroso
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
- Robbie Coltrane
Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
- Perry Como
Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney Company
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney Company
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
- Walt Disney
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney
I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.
- Cat Cora
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
- Robert Cormier
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.
- Kelly Corrigan
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.
- Jim Costa
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
- Kevin Costner
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
- Stephen Covey
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
- Marcelene Cox
It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
- William Lane Craig
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
- Wendy Craig
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
- Michael Crapo
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
- Cindy Crawford
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
- Elijah Cummings
There is nothing you will regret more in your life nothing than not being present for your children
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
- William Feather
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
- Roald Dahl
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
- Blythe Danner
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
- Richard Dawkins
Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
- Kurt Vonnegut
When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
- Artur Davis
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.
- Frank Delaney
...dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
- John Green
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.
- Daniel Dennett
If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.
- David Dewhurst
Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our children monitored, tethered, tied to us.
- Joan Didion
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.
- Joan Didion
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
- Phyllis Diller
These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
- John Dillinger
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
- James C Dobson
We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.
- Christopher Dodd
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
- Christopher Dodd
Every hour, Robert thinks, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during that same hour children are moving about, surveying territory that seems to them entirely new. They push back the darkness; they scatter memories behind them like bread crumbs. The world is remade.
- Anthony Doerr
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.
- Bob Dole
Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.
- Jennifer Donnelly
All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
- Byron Dorgan
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.
- Rita Dove
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