Lawton M. Chiles Jr. Quotes

My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Everyone keeps talking about fixing and returning America - making America great. But yet, nobody ever seems to focus on the fact that you're not going to make any country great if you don't address its children.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.

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.

If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

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.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.

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

Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

I've worked with children all my life.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

What its children become, that will the community become.

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.

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.