Wilferd Peterson
Author and Speaker
"Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say."
Our Children quotes
Our Children
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Our children need our presence, not our presents."
Richard Adams
Author
"Our children's children will hear a good story."
Lewis Gordon
Philosopher
"If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?"
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"Every elected official on this planet should understand - don't play with our children, don't do it."
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"We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children."
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"Train our children to love God."
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"Let our children be taught love love love."
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"Our children are for life our friends are here for the moment."
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"I invite everyone to question their thoughts about their children and allow their children to be free. That's when we stop teaching our children fear."
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"I think our children are afraid to die because we're afraid to die."
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"We cannot give our children what we don’t have."
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"We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'."
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"Time spent with your children is time wisely spent."
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"Our children are weird. Nicely phrased."
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"If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves."
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