“Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?” WorldChildrenMatterFightingParentWaterSecurityOur ChildrenClimate ChangeNeighborGlobal WarmingNational SecurityGrandchildrenBetter OffChildren And GrandchildrenFresh Water Author:Wesley Clark
“We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.” ChildrenShowsLeadershipEnvironmentOur ChildrenEnvironmentalGrandchildrenOur EnvironmentChildren And Grandchildren Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.” ChildrenPayCostLimitsOur ChildrenDebtGrandchildrenExpenditures Author:Chaka Fattah
“They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.” GivingChildrenBitsDifficultGunOur ChildrenResistanceYour ChildrenReasonableOwnershipGun ControlGrandchildrenOutlawGun Ownership Author:Dave Kopel
“I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.” ChildrenSaidArmsOur ChildrenMissionsPresidentialGrandchildren Author:John F. Kennedy
“But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.” IfsChildrenFactsReturnPercentNegativeOur ChildrenRateSecureFundRetirementRetiringGrandchildrenMaking Changes Author:John Shadegg
“A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"” LooksMayChildrenTwoAsksNamesMoralDemocracyPromiseOur ChildrenClimateGrandchildrenRise AboveUncommonChildren And GrandchildrenMoral CourageAmerican Democracy Author:Al Gore
“Our children and grandchildren are going to be mad at us for burning all this oil. It took the Earth 500 million years to create the stuff we're burning in 200 years. Renewable energy sources are where we need to be headed.” NeedsYearsChildrenEarthEnergyStuffMillionsSourceOur ChildrenMadClimateOilBurningGrandchildrenRenewable EnergyChildren And GrandchildrenEnergy SourcesRenewable Energy Sources Author:Jack Edwards
“We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.” WellsChildrenKnownWorryGenerationsOur ChildrenImpactClimateClimate ChangeGrandchildren Author:Margaret Beckett
“Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.” IfsYearsFirstsChildrenLongHomeSeemsDiesFiveMarriedFirst TimeThirdsOur ChildrenRaisesYour ChildrenFourthSpouseGrandchildrenFifthMe AloneMarried Life Book:Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together Source: Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
“Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.” ChildrenActionSpeakDifficultIssuesCommitmentOur ChildrenGrandchildrenHollowInsufficientChildren And Grandchildren Author:Jenny Shipley
“We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.” ChildrenEarthResponsibilityMoralEnvironmentHealthyProtectOur ChildrenGrandchildrenChildren And GrandchildrenMoral ResponsibilityResponsibility To Protect Author:Jim Clyburn
“If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.” IfsChildrenAbleSufferingPoorResponsibleOur ChildrenClimateClimate ChangeGrandchildrenAdaptationCurbChildren And Grandchildren Author:Jim Yong Kim
“We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.” ChildrenStatesFoundPlanetsOur ChildrenGrandchildrenOur PlanetStewardshipChildren And Grandchildren Author:Christopher Dodd