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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

Together, Moment, Leave

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney

Live, Feelings, Ideas

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith

Forget, Listen, Watch

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Plato

Greatest, Perfect, Hear

I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Barack Obama

Gay, Doubt, Friends

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
Lance Armstrong

Hope, Fight, Give

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Done, Revolution, Give

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, God, Concepts

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Rosa Parks

Racism, Shall, Meet

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken

Love, Women, Men

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Erma Bombeck

Parents, Written, Admit

If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.
Mitt Romney

Work, Peace, Freedom

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller

Home, Parents, Away

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Design

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson

Life, Truth, Everyone

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ask, Birds, Taste

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Erma Bombeck

Television, Eat, General

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
Mitt Romney

Love, Government, Job

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

Age, Religion, Sex

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

Mother, She, Loved

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma Bombeck

Car, Saying, Goes

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Early, Geniuses

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

Down, Talk, Lives

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
Mitt Romney

Life, Night, America

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Themselves, Deceive, Grown

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken

School, Sunday, Parents

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, God, Fashion

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet

Themselves, Left, Educated

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor

Women, Men, Strong

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

Greatest, Give, Roots

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