“The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.” IfsWorldYearsChildrenProblemAbleNextEnergyActingCenturyBalanceDemandResourcesOur ChildrenCrisisSolveSelfishAlternativesDecentOur FutureGrandchildrenOverwhelmedShrinkingChildren And GrandchildrenBeing SelfishEnergy CrisisActing Now Author:Jimmy Carter
“No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?” MindFirstsChildrenCenturyOur ChildrenTeethSaneTheologianDentist Author:Michael Dowd
“We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.” ChildrenCenturyDrugGunOur ChildrenBridges21st CenturyGangDrug Free Author:William J. Clinton
“The last spectacle of which Christian men are likely to grow tired is a harbour. Centuries hence there may be jumping-off places for the stars, and our children's children's and so forth children may regard a ship as a creeping thing scarcely more adventurous than a worm. Meanwhile, every harbour gives us a sense of being in touch, if not with the ends of the universe, with the ends of the earth.” IfsMenGivingMayChildrenEndsEarthChristianLastsUniverseStarsGrowsCenturyRegardOur ChildrenTiredShipsWormsJumpingAdventurousHarbourJumping Off Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.” KnowsWayTryingChildrenSchoolCenturyOur ChildrenEducated21st CenturyRight Way20th Century Author:Donna Edwards
“Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.” NeedsFirstsChildrenChallengesCenturyReadyIndustryTwentiesOur ChildrenEnterprise21st Century Author:Jim Rohn
“I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.” ChildrenHomeFoundWonderNovelCenturyStrangeResearchOur ChildrenInspiredYour ChildrenPrivate LifeNursing19th CenturyBackboneMilkweed Author:Julie Klassen
“Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.” NeedsFirstsChildrenCenturyEqualTwentiesOur Children Author:Oliver DeMille
“To teach your child to only be a Muslim in Muslim spaces or only a Christian in Christian spaces means in a way that you're teaching them a religious identity that is relevant to only a very small part of their lives, because the vast majority of their lives in the 21st century are going to be lived in interaction with others.” WayMeanChildrenChristianReligiousSpaceTeachTeachingCenturyIdentityOur ChildrenMajorityYour ChildrenRelevantInteraction21st CenturySmall PartsInteraction With OthersReligious Identity Author:Eboo Patel
“The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.” WorldWayGivingChildrenNextCenturyProgramOur ChildrenFundingBest Education Author:Paul Newman
“Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.” NeedsFirstsChildrenWholeFacesCareersAchieveCenturyBalanceTasksTwentiesOur ChildrenEducate Author:Ken Robinson
“I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksChildrenGovernmentChoicesCitiesImagineCenturyCitizensOur ChildrenPrimitive21st Century20th CenturyFloatingLiving OnMarvellous Author:Joe Quirk
“At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.” GivingChildrenDreamKidsReadingOpportunityParentChanceResponsibilityCenturyCitizensPoliticianOur ChildrenLibraryDawnGates21st CenturyLibrarianEducatorInstillLove Of Reading Author:Barack Obama
“We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.” WorldChildrenHardProblemResponsibilityEnvironmentImagineCenturyGoes OnAbuseOur ChildrenEnvironmentalGreedSolvePoisonPits Book:Ishmael: A Novel Source: Ishmael: A Novel
“Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.” ChildrenDoeCharacterFormValuesIndividualNationsSoundCommunityResponsibilityEconomyDemocracyWeekCenturyCitizensEssentialsImportanceOur ChildrenFoundationCaringCoreCelebrateOur SocietyEthicalFairnessCitizenship21st CenturyMaintainingTrustworthinessIndividual LifeEthical Values Author:William J. Clinton
“There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsLooksChildrenLongDoneSchoolPastSpiritualMoralSupportGreaterInfluenceCenturyMovementDemandDeserveTasksImportanceOur ChildrenAimSpreadDecadesPreparationContributionTwentieth CenturyOver The PastCultivationOminousExemplaryMethodical Author:Bruno Walter
“When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.” PeopleIfsMenChildrenHas BeensThreeCommonCenturyPrayingOur ChildrenRussiaOur FamilyYour ChildrenBellsThree TimesTollsCommon ManRasputin Author:Grigori Rasputin