Our Children Quotes

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

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

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

I want our children in America to know the limits of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

This is a very serious matter, because it is our children who are the prize for this community, they are specifically targeting our children.

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

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.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of our children.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

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.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.

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.

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.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Most of us would protest that of course we love our children without any strings attached. But what counts is how things look from the perspective of the children

When it comes to the education of our children... failure is not an option.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

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

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'.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.