Quotes About Our Children

#1. I believe our children, unknowingly and with innocent trickery, teach us the deeper knowledge of how to be a true human being

Vimala McClure

#2. Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

Ken Robinson

#3. We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.

Barack Obama

#4. Understanding our children's frustrations with dyslexia and giving them the tools to blossom will give them the confidence to reach their true potential. We can help our children channel their interests and talents and ignite the passion within.

Carolina Frohlich

#5. One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Ayelet Waldman

#6. Giving our children rest means being their safe harbor, their place to retreat when life hurts and the world looms large and people disappoint and mistakes are made. Becoming that safe harbor means being free ~ freely available, freely offered, freely welcoming.

L.R. Knost

#7. At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

Brigham Young

#8. Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Carlos Slim

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

Phil Robertson

#10. Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

Charlotte Knobloch

#12. By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.

Tamara L. Chilver

#13. 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

#14. My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

Nancy Pelosi

#15. Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.

Audre Lorde

#16. We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.

Jeanne Kohl-Welles

#17. All of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.

Christine Gregoire

#18. I hope our children look like you. They would be beautiful then. I don't want ugly children. I'm very shallow.

Tiffany Reisz

#19. To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

David Nasaw

#20. I can't separate the fight with terrorism and the fight against global warming. These are two big global challenges we have to face up to because we have to leave our children more than a world free of terror; we also owe them a planet protected from catastrophes.

Francois Hollande

#21. Said the tiger to the lily, Said the viper to the rose, Let us marry so our children May attain the double pose. With a feline half a flower With the attar in the asp We could institute a slaughter That would make a planet gasp.

Nathalia Crane

#22. We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

Fred Rogers

#23. I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

Louis J. Freeh

#24. The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.

Dallin H. Oaks

#25. We deny righteousness in fear of our own safety, and in doing so forfeit the future of our children. We let them live in a dead tomorrow because we fear bleeding for it today.

David Dalglish

#26. The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.

Michael Sandel

#27. I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Irvin D. Yalom

#28. We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.

Regina Belle

#29. If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Douglas W. Phillips

#30. We often sing lullabyes to our children that we ourselves may sleep.

Kahlil Gibran

#31. Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

Oliver DeMille

#32. We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

Golda Meir

#33. What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence ... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

Marian Wright Edelman

#34. It is time we have more HOLY BIBLES in our homes rather than guns; time we pray together with our children and stay together in their lives.

James C. Uwandu

#35. Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#36. I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

P. J. O'Rourke

#37. Do you have any idea how stubborn you can look ? Our children better never give me that look, althought I won't mind if they give it to you. You'd deserve it.

Christine Feehan

#38. We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Brigham Young

#39. Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique ... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Charles Handy

#40. 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

#41. If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

Danny Glover

#42. For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love.

Laurie Frankel

#43. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Richard Perle

#44. Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.

Sara Sheridan

#45. Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.

Joel Robuchon

#46. When we liberate ourselves from the idea of parenting success, we liberate our children from failure, all without accomplishing a single thing.

Karen Maezen Miller

#47. Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Warren Farrell

#48. Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

Richard Branson

#49. I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.

Aeriel Miranda

#50. 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

#51. Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#52. We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

Giorgio Napolitano

#53. We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

Ellen Goodman

#54. It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

Lewis Strauss

#55. Monsters are eternal," she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. "We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the story alive. Someday, you will regenerate.

Rick Riordan

#56. Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,.

Sam Brownback

#57. As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.

Joaquin Phoenix

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

Yaya Toure

#59. I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do something
for our children'.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#60. Our children will be raised differently, and that's alright. I sense our strength together, our support for each other's choices.
Today, I've fallen in deeper love with these people.
No matter which direction we fucking move, we'll all still be there.

Krista Ritchie

#61. Why does the United States spend more than $20 billion a year on farm programs but less than $4 billion a year on education and early care for children in the critical first two years of life? Are corn and soybeans really a higher priority for America's future than our children?

Nicholas D. Kristof

#62. While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

James E. Faust

#63. Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#64. We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

Hanna Rosin

#65. Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

Matt Chandler

#66. The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

Bob Riley

#67. Progressives believe in making progress, which is why I'm proud to endorse Hillary Clinton, who I know will continue fighting to ensure our children and grandchildren can achieve their highest and best dreams.

Thomas Perez

#68. My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

Ruby Bridges

#69. We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Ilona Andrews

#70. Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn't include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

Jen Hatmaker

#71. We cannot give our children what we don't have.

Brene Brown

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

Arne Duncan

#73. We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts ...

Eda LeShan

#74. My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

Tasha Smith

#75. A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral health problems.

Tamara Hill

#76. We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more.

Charlotte Mason

#77. The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Paul

#78. Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.

Bruce Chatwin

#79. Some would never think of talking to friends the way they do to their own children. We should speak with the same words of kindness to our children, as we would when speaking to our best friends.

Randall Wright

#80. In light of our current crisis, nothing could be more spiritual than saving our children from humanism, our economy from deprivation, and our liberty from extinction.

Marshall Foster

#81. The best legacy we leave is not for our children but in our children.

Deborah Roberts

#82. Our children are too precious and their time with us too short for us to neglect the unspeakable privilege we have in loving them, nurturing them, shaping them, and preparing them to step out into the wide world.

David Jeremiah

#83. The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

Robert Green Ingersoll

#84. Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#85. How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#86. A mortal parent may appreciate, in some small way, the feelings of a loving Heavenly Father. When our children come to the age when they must leave our direct care, we feel anxiety for their safety and concern that those who are to help them will not fail them.

Henry B. Eyring

#87. Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty.

Richard Louv

#88. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

Martin O'Malley

#89. Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

Steven Michael Quezada

#90. The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable ... that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Al Gore

#91. If we are not careful, we shall leave our children a legacy of billion dollar roads, leading nowhere except to other congested places like those they left behind.

Omar Bradley

#92. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Billy Graham

#93. Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.

Ted Agon

#94. We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

Marlena De Blasi

#95. It may shock some parents to learn that we don't own our children. God has given them to us in trust ... however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.

Billy Graham

#96. As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Stephen Pagliuca

#97. Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Michael Morpurgo

#98. What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

John Spratt

#99. I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

Jane D. Hull

#100. We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

Bernie Siegel