James Baldwin Quotes

What our children become, so becomes our nation. It is plain common sense to give our children the best education possible so that they can develop into productive responsible citizens contributing economically, socially and politically to our democratic society.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

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.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

What its children become, that will the community become.

A city cannot survive if it does not educate its young.

If plants, and livestock as well, require space and air, sunlight and love, children need them even more. The only real wealth of our country lies in the men and women of the next generation.

I'll be working with kids for the rest of my life.

Kids are important.

I prefer really often to talk to high school students, mostly because I think they're the future for us.

I believe the children are our future

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

To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how we care for our children today. Tomorrow's world may be influenced by science and technology, but more than anything, it is already taking shape in the bodies and minds of our children.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.