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Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

~Colin Powell

Topics: Avoid Caring Children Civic Commitment Deserve Duty Education Fairness Family Gain Get High-Quality Jobs Learn Math More Need Only Reading Self-Respect System Them Violence Want

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Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

~Colin Powell

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Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

~Colin Powell

Topics: Act Ask Because Behind Children Giving Grade Know Learn Officers Often Our Ready Schools Teachers Them Third Too Who You

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We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.

~Colin Salmon

Topics: About Area Chair Children Got Governors Lost Nursery Protect Provision School Schools Skills Worried

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I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.

~Colin Trevorrow

Topics: Area Children Collective Films Human Like Lot Loved Memory Occupy Our Sci-Fi Space Stories Supernatural Think Venture Very I Think

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I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.

~Colleen Haskell

Topics: Been Book Children Design Graphic Graphic Design Like Love See Storytelling Through While Working I Love

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As I tell my children, the first thing is always health. Get sleep, don't party, don't do drugs or drink. If your body is right, then you will be right, and if your body is wrong, you will be wrong. Live like a Buddhist monk!

~Colm Wilkinson

Topics: Always Body Buddhist Children Drink First First Thing Get Health Like Live Monk Party Right Sleep Tell The First Thing Then Thing Will Wrong You Your Your Body

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I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

~Colonel Sanders

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Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Back Being Children Come Cotton Could Designed Family Field Find God Gone Having Husband Knowing Many Meant Mother Never Picking Slave Stability Together Would Years You Your

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Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Am Back Better Brought Brutal Children Despair Drove Families Get Hand Having History Home Hope Kids Me Other Our Over Price Reality Slave System Things Whenever Wife Will I Am

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