Jessye Norman Quotes

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

It takes a village to raise a child.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Children need models rather than critics.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

The Boys and Girls club was basically a second home for me, and I always credit it with keeping me out of trouble. From the ages of 6 to 16, I was there nearly every day.

You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.