James Salter Quotes

I believe the children are our future

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

My grandkids say, "Reality Bites." O.K., but it also challenges and rewards... I believe our best days are yet to come.

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it

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.

[Kids] will grow up into a world that's difficult and wonderful, and they'll make the best of it they can, and hopefully help turn it in the best possible direction.

I don't know what my daughter will become.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.

My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.