Children Are The Future Quotes

#1. Children are the future of a nation. If the children are intelligent, the country will be prosperous.

Thai proverb

Elaine Russell

#2. I believe children are the future ... which is why they must be stopped now!

Homer

#3. Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

Milan Kundera

#4. The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

Onyi Anyado

#5. No gift bestowed upon us us so precious as children. They are proof that God still loves us. They
are the hope of the future Ensign, May 1987

James E. Faust

#6. The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#7. The stories the children whispered to one another - while they sat weaving their endless carpets, while they could still see - was about this possible future life. It was a saying among them that only the blind are free.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

Nicolas Cage

#9. Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

Margaret Mead

#10. I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

Armstrong Williams

#11. Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

Carl Sagan

#12. The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children

Philip Carr-Gomm

#13. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

Ziggy Marley

#14. Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.

Zilda Arns

#15. They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

Miguel Ruiz

#16. Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Jonathan Kozol

#17. Parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.

Michael Connelly

#18. For this cause also children cannot be happy, for they are not old enough to be capable of noble acts; when children are spoken of as happy, it is in compliment to their promise for the future.

Aristotle.

#19. Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger?

Florence Engel Randall

#20. Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

Kofi Annan

#21. Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

Zig Ziglar

#22. Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers

KRS-One

#23. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Lysa TerKeurst

#24. Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the gatekeepers of the future. The world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren will depend upon our success in building a more peaceful and decent world.

David Krieger

#25. Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

George Carlin

#26. Now they're twenty-four and their real lives lie before them. Jobs of their own, a house of their own, children of their own. There are the two of them, and the future they are moving into is theirs, too.
Or is it?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#27. What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

James Hansen

#28. Failing to provide children adequate access to nutritious food not only endangers their emotional, physical and mental development, but it also puts all aspects of their future well-being at risk. The costs are too high when you short-change children.

Jane Bown

#29. Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

Nelson Mandela

#30. It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. ... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

Danielle Steel

#31. You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#32. Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Ed Markey

#33. Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Stephen Covey

#34. The children of any nation are its future. A country, a
movement, a person that does not value its youth and
children does not deserve its future.

Oliver Tambo

#35. For a while children live under their mother's skin. Then one day in the future, the mother lives under the child's.

Suzanne Supplee

#36. My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

Diane Samuels

#37. I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Whitney Houston

#38. Children do not constitute anyone's property:
they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society.
They belong only to their own future freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

#39. We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

#40. And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

Barack Obama

#41. And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me ...
"What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well.
"My future wife. The mother of my children.

Kristan Higgins

#42. Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.

Nelson Mandela

#43. As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.

Michael Gove

#44. Everyone is moving at the same speed toward the future. But your children are moving at that same speed with their eyes closed. So you're the ones who've got to steer.

Jennifer Senior

#45. FOR, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, our most basic common link IS THAT WE ALL INHABIT this small planet. WE ALL BREATHE THE SAME AIR. We all cherish our children's future. AND WE ARE ALL MORTAL. - John F. Kennedy

Tony DiTerlizzi

#46. If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

Thomas Jefferson

#47. The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

Virginia Postrel

#48. If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

Jane Goodall

#49. Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead ... now that's what you call risk!

Dave Hampton

#50. The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Desmond Tutu

#51. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

Gerald Durrell

#52. It's a lot easier for our children to look forward to a hopeful future if they have the confidence that we are doing all we can, while they are in our care, to groom them for the future.

Tim Kimmel

#53. Be good at the people who are not yet born. Prepare for them a better place than the one you came to inherit. They will be grateful to you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#54. Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

John Goodman

#55. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

#56. As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

Chris Ware

#57. Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#58. Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.

David Clement-Davies

#59. We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

Maria Montessori

#60. Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.

Abhijit Naskar

#61. The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#62. Ben Says: If our children are the hope & future for a better world...then let's work diligently to better their lives today!

Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben

Timothy Pina

#63. If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.

Anthony De Mello

#64. By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Paul Ryan

#65. Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

Margaret Mead

#66. All children are our responsibility and should always be safe. We must do what we can to help them stay safe, wel and educated. The future of humanity depands on it. Without children ... earth will not have a future.

Timothy Pina

#67. We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

#68. Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

Blanche Lincoln

#69. There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future ...

Alma Powell

#70. What are you looking at? she asks.
What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was
put on this earth to find? Yes.

Pete Wentz

#71. Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future!

Steph Cook

#72. children will be able to tell than the story we have told? Surely that is the greatest contribution of science to civilization: to ensure that the greatest books are not those of the past, but of the future.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#73. If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#74. Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#75. In all seriousness ... you who submit yourselves to an abortion or to an operation that precludes you from safely having additional healthy children are jeopardizing your exaltation and your future membership in the kingdom of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

#76. If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

Margaret Mead

#77. You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

Dan Chaon

#78. We like to see our future through our children; they are the reflection of the best of ourselves.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things are taught to children before they begin school. THE OCCULTISM OF THE PAST BECOMES THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE.

Donald Michael Kraig

#80. This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

Ban Ki-moon

#81. Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

Bryant McGill

#82. I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.

John Shelby Spong

#83. Americans are a responsive people and the ideas, the knowledge and the emotions that come through the television screen in our living rooms will most certainly shape the course of the future for ourselves and our children.

Walt Disney Company

#84. Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

Frances Beinecke

#85. I'm a great lover of children. I never thought that one day I'd actually be a father, but I'm very pleased that I changed my mind. Children are extremely important. They are the future of the world.

Elton John

#86. Children are nature's flower and our future. They are the future fathers and mothers. They are our mind's adventure in the future.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend ...

Charlotte Mason

#88. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#89. Speak to them as if you were on stage in front of thousands of people. Respond to them with the respect they deserve. They are our future. Guard your tongue. Be brave enough to try harder.
Let's create a childhood that our children won't have to recover from.

Brooke Hampton

#90. Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world.

Bryant McGill

#91. Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

Jenny Shipley

#92. The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Henry Lawson

#93. Children are our future, and God loves the children.

Victoria Osteen

#94. Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Esther Meynell

#95. Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok.
-pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor The Demon's Daughter

Emma Holly

#96. We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children who are malnourished in our country.

Donna Mills

#97. Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide.

Dale McGowan

#98. Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

John F. Kennedy

#99. Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Maria Montessori

#100. When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.

Kevin McCarthy