Alonzo Mourning Quotes

Like most parents in the US, they are trying, with a little help from UNICEF, to do the best they can to help their children reach their full potential.

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

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.

I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

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.

Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

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

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

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

We need to offer great examples to our youth.

Team Griffin Foundation is a foundation trying to inspire young men and women to give them organization, give them something to have, kind of like when I was growing up. I had people who were supporting me, giving me the right tools that I needed to be able to achieve my dreams.

Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same time it is important that they are guided as a friend when they go through adolescence.

With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

We must provide our kids with the skills they need to stay and succeed here in Maine - that's something we all agree on.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.

To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.

The [Steve Harvey] foundation started originally about the educational needs of children. But, as I got into it more and more, one of my main objectives became mentoring programs for young African American men because that's our problem in our community - it's the African American men.

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.