Our Children Quotes

Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water. But we also know what it means to see our children begin to smile again, with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

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?

The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.

Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

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.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

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

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

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.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

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

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

We're to love our children for who they are, not for what we want them to become.

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

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.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.