Thomas Menino Quotes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

The seeds of a fruitful society are sown in the minds of its youth.

The main hope of a state lies in the proper education of its youth.

Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.

Our kids are our biggest assets. They are the future of our country. If we provide them good education, no one can stop India from becoming a developed country.

I think anyone that's running for office really should focus on the education for our youth, creating more jobs and employment, and really focusing on our next generation.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

Children aren't just our future. They're our present.

I think food and education will help stem the poverty of the young people who are being drawn into terrorism every day.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

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.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

These are our children. We will all profit by and pay for whatever they become.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused throughout a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.