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~ Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~

Marian Wright

~ Sorrow makes us all children again. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people`s children. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children ~

Joyce Maguire Pavao

~ But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood ~

Bernice Weissbourd

~ Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. ~

Dr. Seuss

~ People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children ~

Karl Augustus Menninger

~ Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature ~

Henry C. Link

~ Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land ~

Luna Leopold

~ Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society ~

Jack Kingston

~ If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. ~

Gloria Steinem

~ May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. ~

Joseph Lancaster

~ I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified! ~

Danielle Steel

~ Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew. ~

Luther Burbank

~ In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ~

Giorgio Vasari

~ To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ~

William Penn

~ I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ~

Barney Frank

~ Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. ~

Allan Bloom

~ My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. ~

Sherman Alexie

~ At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ~

Orson Pratt

~ But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ~

Sophocles

~ I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. ~

Geronimo

~ Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't. ~

Bernice Weissbourd

~ Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. ~

Mark Sanford

~ Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ~

Allan Bloom

~ Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus. ~

Therese of Lisieux

~ Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagineî ~

Allan Bloom

~ That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest. ~

Charles Tupper

~ We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. ~

King Hussein I

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