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~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain ~

John Adams

~ It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped ~

Hubert H. Humphrey

~ The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. ~

Jean Paul Richter

~ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. ~

Bible

~ When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do ~

Unknown

~ We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children ~

John Sculley

~ Yesterday I saw a child wearing a T-shirt that said, "If you love me, don't feed me junk food." I was delighted to see this, but I also know how difficult it can be to feed our children well, particularly when the foods that are most convenient and the most heavily advertised are often the ones we should avoid. Joel Fuhrman's new book is a blessing, because it makes it so much easier. It is excellent, and full of clarity, wisdom, and guidance you can trust. It can indeed give you the power to shape your child's health destiny ~

John Robbins

~ American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening. ~

Joel Fuhrman

~ I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing ~

Gloria Steinem

~ Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you ~

Robert Fulghum

~ One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married ~

Kin Hubbard

~ Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~

Alex Haley

~ There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ~

Victor Hugo

~ Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap. ~

Doug Larson

~ What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~

Rudolph Giuliani

~ They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. ~

Joan McIntosh

~ Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us? ~

Susan Sarandon

~ Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Homosexuality is God`s way of ensuring that the truly gifted aren`t burdened with children. ~

Sam Austin

~ The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived. ~

Michael Jackson

~ This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ~

Barack Obama

~ Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~

Marilyn Penland

~ If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers ~

Edgar W. Howe

~ Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ~

Leonard Cohen

~ Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship ~

Laura Schlessinger

~ There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. ~

Nelson Mandela

~ I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. ~

Pearl S. Buck

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