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How to use the word children in a Sentence?

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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

John James Audubon

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2 months ago

As children of Earth, born for justice, let no one do evil. In compassion’s light, we find strength to dispel darkness. Together, united, goodness prevails, and justice echoes through our shared humanity.”

Christen Kuikoua

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4 months ago

There are many layers to God's gifts to you. Some layers are basic and everyday whilst others are like diamonds and children at play.

Heather Lydia Thornhill

added by Gina.taylor
6 months ago

The street outside my window is one of a million likeminded Los Angeles streets. Taggers, homeless, families and lovers, thieves and beggars, running children and old women, churches, bars, corner stores, Spanish, Cambodian and Armenian words and accents. I want to hug my street and all within, to feel the throbbing pulse beating its steady rhythm.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
8 months ago

Labor Day is a day to recognize the dignity of work and the contributions of working people to our society. Dedicated to no single man, sect or class, Labor Day celebrates the tireless collective efforts of all individuals striving to make our nation a better place for us, our children, and future generations. The farmer and the businessperson, the civil servant and the private sector worker, the state officers, all the workers..... let us honor their selfless service irrespective of their class or background. - Aloo Denish

Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
10 months ago

We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future ..

Rooma Mehra

added by karlhartmann_1
11 months ago

These are healthy children. With no prior significant medical history that would make them more prone…there wasn’t any known immunosuppression or anything like that.

Taryn Bragg

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Left unchallenged, it would prohibit transgender children from receiving health care that their medical providers and their parents have determined to be medically necessary. In doing so, the law seeks to substitute the judgment of trained medical professionals and parents with that of elected officials and codifies discrimination against children who already face far too many obstacles.

Tennessee Henry Leventis

Found on CNN
11 months ago

I wanted to address my senators Cruz and Cornyn, neither of whom regrettably are in the room right now, but I would like for them to know that what happened to me I think most people in this room would agree was horrific. But it’s a direct result of the policies that they support, i nearly died on their watch, and furthermore, as a result of what happened to me, I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future.

Amanda Zurawski

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Because I wasn’t permitted to have an abortion and the trauma and the PTSD and the depression that I have dealt with in the eight months since this happened to me is paralyzing, on top of that, I am still struggling to have children.

Amanda Zurawski

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Importantly, however, we know that not all shy children are alike, and that many shy children grow up to be well-adjusted adults.

Kristie Poole

Found on CNN
11 months ago

It is likely that the experience of … shyness in response to a speech task is a relatively common, normative experience for children at this age, for a smaller group of temperamentally shy children, however, being the center of attention may be stressful across time and various contexts.

Kristie Poole

Found on CNN
11 months ago

Given the increase in opioid and cannabis use across the US, healthcare providers may be testing more often for children, and we may be detecting a greater number of ingestions.

James Dodington

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We are going to [have] double the number of middle-income seniors when the baby boomers age, fewer of those baby boomers are going to have spouses or children who live nearby to provide unpaid caregiving support.

Caroline Pearson

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Thousands of victims – particularly women and children – are at very serious risk because of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in this case as are potential victims of future mass shootings, often perpetrated by domestic abusers.

Douglas Letter

Found on CNN
12 months ago

There is evidence that some uses of social media do, in fact, hurt certain groups of teenagers and children, this is not some moral panic. There is a ‘there’ there.

Alvaro Bedoya

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Meta has a record of abject failure to protect children and teens, and yet again, this company has chosen to put young users at risk so that it can make more money.

Ed Markey

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Those landmark rulings sealed the deal: Children with Down syndrome have the right to the same lifesaving treatment that any other child would deserve.

Brian Skotko

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We continue to fight to say you can’t profile and shoot our children, just because you have this ‘stand your ground’ law, unacceptable.

Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I want Russia and other nations to know the truth. I don’t want war and bloodshed. You see I’m holding a cigarette in this hand. I followed orders with this hand and killed children.

Azamat Uldarov

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Under the age of 20 or 22, our brains are still developing, and we’re still formulating our understanding of the world, children and young adults start to create narratives around their own safety, the safety of their schools and homes and communities based on what they are witnessing. Tragedies can tend to make them think that the world is an unsafe place.

Shairi Turner

Found on CNN
12 months ago

What has our nation come to when children cannot attend a birthday party without fear? When parents have to worry every time their kids walk out the door to school, to the movie theater, or to the park?

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

My non-attendance and silence has been inferred by many as a sign of apathy, or worse. That could not be further from the truth. I want Madeline Jane Kingsbury home and for Madeline Jane Kingsbury to be able to be with our two children.

Adam Fravel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our current thinking is that it is best for parents to share the story of donor conception with their children at a very early age, so that if I were to ask their child when they are an adult when they learned that they were donor conceived, they would respond that they ‘ always knew, ’ this allows the child to grow up with the information, as opposed to learning it later in life, when it comes as a surprise or shock and can hurt their trust in their parents and their identity development.

Lauri Pasch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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