We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
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Related We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness ... DEBASISH MRIDHA While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. CHUCK PALAHNIUK While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. ANGELA SCHWINDT While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -A... ANGELA SCHWINDT Why do we teach our children to hate others when there is no other option than to love? We need to t... DEBASISH MRIDHA See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. HARRY EDWARDS Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our... JOYCE BROTHERS We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This out... JEFFREY DAVIS Children can learn to play as a team -- and they learn you don't always win. That's something, this ... MARA KAPLAN Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are... WALT DISNEY The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. JOSE MOURINHO Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD For our beginning reader program, we will take children as young as 4-and-a-half and teach them how ... DANA LASHLEY As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of ou... KATHRYN STOCKETT Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are ... WALT DISNEY I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their childr... KOFI ANNAN When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe... M SCOTT PECK When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe... M. SCOTT PECK If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our va... SILVIA CARTWRIGHT Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. DAN QUAYLE We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities. BEN OAK Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow? TANYA R. LIVERMAN You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. S... CHIEF SEATTLE What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER If we can get to children while they're young, we can teach them respect for all life. BETTY HUGHES Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the th... STANLEY H CATH Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un... GARY F EVANS... If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them wha... WILLIAM BENNETT We don't teach to the test. We teach a lot more than that. We teach to our standards. DONNA DEEDS We just wake up in the morning and go to another party. That's Key West. We wake up to sunny skies a... JOE PAIS If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script... JULIE KAGAWA We felt that what the prom had become went against the moral and spiritual lessons we were trying to... BROTHER KENNETH M. HOAGLAND We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr... MALCOLM X We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr... MALCOLM X Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN This is an environment where we can teach our children. This is good for the boys. It's important fo... DANIEL LEONHARDT Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to f... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence, ... Each year, fewer tha... COLMAN MCCARTHY Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own. DAVID ALLAN COE I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children: that the world ... GRETCHEN CARLSON Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our ... NAVEEN JAIN We teach what the state curriculum tells us to teach. We have our aligned our curriculum to the stat... JACK BARNES We've got to teach parents to expect their children to go on to college. There's a culture here of m... TOM WATSON We were only authorized to adopt two children by the government. But the three of them were sisters.... LUZ HOYT we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI So when we were young and learning "the value of a dollar", perhaps we should have been taught how t... STR8NUOUT The only way that we are going to have people care about the environment is if we reach children and... LYNNE NEMETH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media... AMY JO MARTIN We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole ... YAKOV SMIRNOFF We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, ... LYDIA MILLET If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; an... AMY CARMICHAEL My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life. GENA LEE NOLIN Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered ou... GARY BAUER These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach... CHARLES MANSON Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls... CHIEF SEATTLE (SEALTH), SUQUAMISH CHIEF What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear mor... JAMES HANSEN It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children ... JIMMY CARTER How many of us teach our own children to be dignified, free? How many of us knowingly teach them to ... MARIANA FULGER In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our chi... JULIA CAMERON This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and expe... YAA GYASI At CPAC, we teach life skills, not just singing and dancing, which guide our students to become cari... KAREN MEYER I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is no... GOLDIE HAWN We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by. JOHN DENVER How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings... GLORIA REUBEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We use these games to teach children about health and their body and teamwork. If you look at $40,00... CONRAD ALLEBLAS I've taught children as young as 5 years old. Believe me they are easier to teach than these (let's ... AL FERNANDEZ I'm glad to be here on the day we honor Dr. King, a true giant, and it's our responsibility to teach... SPIKE LEE Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle. E. LOCKHART Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may b... JOEL ROBUCHON It's our children and our children's children who will be affected by this technology, and it is up ... JAMES CROMWELL Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t... DIRK BENEDICT Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. W... JAMES DYSON It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be. ERIC MICHA'EL LEVENTHAL If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we sh... MAHATMA GANDHI Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number ... ANDREW MARR We are eager to teach our children to go in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6) but sometimes so ... SANTOSH THANKACHAN For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE As a state, we must step up to the plate and renew our commitment to ourselves, our children and our... CURT JOHNSON We can be involved in the Citizens' Fire Academy or go into schools to teach children. Anything that... DAWN SMITH Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us liv... DAN PEARCE I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before ... JA RULE It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children ... JIMMY CARTER My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. SHERMAN ALEXIE We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better st... CHRISTOPHER DODD As children we were bombarded by competing answers. Church says one thing, school another. Now as ad... ROBERT LANZA I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't ... UMBERTO ECO All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betray... MARTIN LUTHER We wake up to be alive and to revive our lives; we don’t wake up to keep sleeping! We wake up not ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put st... CHRIS CHRISTIE Our focus on culture is obvious, ... We must ensure we do have an atmosphere in all our schools such... GENE HARRIS We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid... JADA PINKETT SMITH
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ANNIE BESANT Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivi... ANNIE BESANT I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and... ANNIE PROULX All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde... ANNIE BESANT The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. ANNIE BESANT Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to... ANNIE BESANT Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rare... ANNIE BESANT This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law d... ANNIE BESANT I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect... ANNIE BESANT There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t. ANNIE LENNOX Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and galla... ANNIE BESANT I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroo... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to ... ANNIE BESANT Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical... ANNIE BESANT I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambi... ANNIE LENNOX You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly nor... ANNIE PARISSE I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common threa... ANNIE GOTTLIEB I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and add... ANNIE LENNOX The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of th... ANNIE BESANT Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act. ANNIE BESANT Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led ... ANNIE BESANT I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I l... ANNIE LENNOX