Quotes About Your Child's Future

#1. The size of your paycheck shouldn't determine your child's future.

Barack Obama

#2. Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts.

Lupe Fiasco

#3. You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

Kim Edwards

#4. O Great Teller of the Future and Inhaler of Volcanic Gas!' said the king. 'Can I get a boy child over here, or what?

Rick Riordan

#5. One Child:
I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.

Brian Andreas

#6. Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

Bruno Bettelheim

#7. All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

Stefan Molyneux

#8. No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Los Angeles Times

#9. To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Red Auerbach

#10. I always sense the future, the antithesis of everything is always before my eyes. I have never seen a child without thinking that it would grow old, nor a cradle without thinking of a grave. The sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton.

Paul Auster

#11. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

Bruce Mau

#12. Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.

Sue Townsend

#14. If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

Hugh Grant

#15. Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.

Bill Jensen

#16. Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had

Hans Christian Andersen

#17. To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president
that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go
forward

Barack Obama

#18. The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.

Amin Maalouf

#19. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Irvin D. Yalom

#20. 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

#21. everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.

Julia Fierro

#22. Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise.

Anne Hamilton

#23. Are you a controlling parent? Are you devoting too much attention to your child? If the answer is yes, then turn some of that attention toward your parents. If you are good to your own parents, then your child will learn how to treat you in the future.

Haemin Sunim

#24. Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

T. Berry Brazelton

#25. You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

Mallory Ortberg

#26. You can't change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.

Shamarion Whitaker

#27. Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Mark Helprin

#28. If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

David Jeremiah

#29. If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

Stefan Molyneux

#30. So at least I could rest my soul knowing I had truly given it my all. And when my future child asks why I stopped pursuing a dream I had had for so many years, I can say with no regret, "The love I have for you and your mother is far greater than any dream.

Rico Lamoureux

#31. I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things ... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Joanne Harris

#32. If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Fran Lebowitz

#33. Keep in mind that the languages that you choose now will be the ones that you orchestrate mostly from home. There's no reason that your child can't take advantage of opportunities to learn a third language (or even more) in the future.

Naomi Steiner

#34. A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.

Deepak Chopra

#35. No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

H. Bentley Glass

#36. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Adeline Yen Mah

#37. If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

Sunil Mittal

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

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#39. When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

Zell Miller

#40. As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

David Johansen

#41. But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?

Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck

#42. As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

Terrence Howard

#43. In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#44. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Marianne Curley

#45. The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.

Elisabeth Badinter

#46. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

Maria Montessori

#47. Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

Bruno Bettelheim

#48. If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future

Sunday Adelaja

#49. Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough?

V.C. Andrews

#50. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.

Donna Brazile

#51. I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

Albert Hofmann

#52. Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

Irina Bokova

#53. The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!

William Gilmore Simms

#54. This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Gordon Brown

#55. The hope for our future blooms in the heart of every child.

Marie Cornelio

#56. Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#57. A child is a part of the self, and of the loved partner; a representation of generations past; the genes of the forebears; the hope of the future; a source of love, pleasure, even narcissistic delight; a tie or a burden; and sometimes a symbol of the worst parts of the self and others.

Beverly Raphael

#58. But thinking of Quinn and his future child was like gasoline to the flame of his fury.

Alyssa Day

#59. Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.

Lee Jong-wook

#60. World will be so beautiful without war.
Every child will grow up without fear.
Mother will smile; child will play.
Friendship will prosper all the way.
Love harmony and peace everywhere.
It is our hope for our great future.

Debasish Mridha

#61. As a child, that had meant looking forward to holidays and birthdays and, most of all, becoming a grown-up. Upon achieving adulthood she had discovered that being a grown-up wasn't nearly as satisfying as she had anticipated. What was more, the future was uncomfortably unpredictable. At

Jayne Ann Krentz

#62. What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?

Joanna Russ

#63. It is unwise, my child, to look too long behind you, else you will miss the future that lies before you.

Regan Walker

#64. Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#65. No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Bob Riley

#66. When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Desmond Tutu