“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.” ChildrenJobsLastsParentClassEconomyModernMiddleBuildingUnderstoodOur ChildrenInvestmentMiddle ClassGrandparentBillionaireRebuildingParents And Grandparents Author:Martin O'Malley
“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".” PeopleIfsInspirationalBelieveWellsMeanChildrenStatesDoneEarthTogetherLastsAmericaFightingGivenI BelieveUnitedRaceUnited StatesMankindOne DayStrongerOur ChildrenRemainsI Believe InFinishedTyrannyWorking TogetherBelieve In YouDeprivationHoping For The BestGood FightI Believe In You Author:Ronald Reagan
“All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?” NeedsChildrenImportantBookMightLastsCareersOur LivesInformationOur ChildrenFortuneInsightTreasureOur RelationshipNinetyCapturedImportant Questions Author:Jim Rohn
“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
“Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.” FirstsChildrenLastsParentOur LivesOur ChildrenTendenciesEmbarrassed Author:Ogden Nash
“At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.” PeopleLongLastsJoyLeftBehindsMorningChildhoodWeaponsToolsOur ChildrenAcquireToysNot InterestedLeft BehindFirearmsShooterChristmas Morning Author:Jeff Cooper
“Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?” IfsShouldChildrenSoulHomeMightLastsEvilWaitingSweetFlowerGrewPrayingHabitComfortSpringOur ChildrenDown AndVictimWineBonesWoundsGravesYour ChildrenImmortalMarchResurrectionProphecyDrunkennessPraying To GodSlumberDrunkardsDrummingImmortal SoulIntemperance Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage
“No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.” GivingChildrenMatterMomentsShowsLastsTerribleOur ChildrenChristmasYour ChildrenPoniesChristmas Present Author:Mignon McLaughlin
“The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.” IfsWantChildrenRealMatterKidsPainJobsLastsParentDifficultConflictOur ChildrenNo Matter WhatAgreeDivorceHarmYour ChildrenExpertsSevereSpouseShieldsStressfulBetter JobsHigh RoadTaking The High Road Author:Emily Doskow
“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.” GivingChildrenLastsLife IsOur ChildrenTricksGenerosityYour ChildrenVillagePlatesNeighbourBiscuitsExtended Family Author:Tom Stoppard
“It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.” IfsKnowsGivingChildrenHardFeelingsLastsForgetToo MuchSecurityTreatsOur ChildrenWoundsYour ChildrenNever Forget Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.” IfsThinkingNeedsFirstsChildrenDoneHandsTodayLastsAliveFeetWake UpOur ChildrenCoffeeYour ChildrenThis DaySpouseOrangeJuiceToastsLast DayOrange Juice Book:The alphabet of grace Source: The alphabet of grace
“In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually take our children outside into the natural world with their technology.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensLastsNaturalRoomsTechnologyOur ChildrenLockedMobileNatural WorldMobile Technology Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman
“I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenImportantFactsLastsDiesSkyDyingOur ChildrenRefuseYour ChildrenSerenityLast WordsCeremony Author:Christian Boltanski
“Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.” ChildrenDoeTodayLastsGrowthResponsibilityPlanetsTomorrowOur ChildrenOur PlanetRecognise Author:Nick Clegg
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingYearsMindChildrenRealLastsFatherDecisionBehindsCompanyFiveMinutesGiving UpBuiltSickOur ChildrenDollarsBunchOur WorldFive MinutesGreat PowerMaking DecisionsSidelinesBusiness World Author:Donald Trump, Jr.
“I think I've indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I've traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsChildrenBigsLastsThreeHouseLeftBornMy OwnFourChildhoodQuietDiedOur ChildrenNostalgiaEchoesHappy Family Author:Guy Maddin
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.” IfsMenYearsFirstsChildrenDoneMomentsEarthLastsAmericaStepsDestinyDarknessFailingThousandOur ChildrenSentencesPreservesPatriotismPatrioticFirst StepsThousand YearsCold WarJustifiedMemorial DayHoping For The BestOur VeteransBrief MomentsGreat Veterans DayRendezvousAmerican Veterans Book:The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“I would want America to know our kids need us. Spend as much time with your kids as you can. Enjoy them. Be with them. Hug your children; You never know when it will be the last time.” KnowsWantNeedsChildrenKidsLastsAmericaEnjoyOur ChildrenAthleteYour ChildrenHugLast TimeHug You Author:Tony Dungy
“For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.” YearsBelieveChildrenStatesFactsLastsScienceRecordsWorstEventsJudgmentLateAccountsOur ChildrenClimateClimate ChangeSakeWaveDecadesIntenseHeatToo LateTrendsOur FutureCombatOverwhelmingFreakFloodCoincidenceSevereDroughtSandyHottestWildfiresBefore It's Too LateHeat WaveSuperstorm Sandy Author:Barack Obama
“As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.” KnowsWantMayChildrenLastsYoungMotherLostFireCollegeSonDaughterOur ChildrenUniversityYour ChildrenTragicHousingInjuredCampusDormsYoung Sons Author:Vito Fossella
“My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.” PeopleShouldChildrenImportantSchoolLastsUsedFatherParentRoomsPowerfulTeacherAliveStudentsOur ChildrenEducateTaliban Author:Malala Yousafzai
“I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.” KnowsYearsFirstsChildrenRealityLastsParentKnow HowForeverDependsOur ChildrenParenthoodExhausting Author:Rob Reiner
“Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.” IfsYearsChildrenHandsLastsCoursesSituationPlanetsOur ChildrenClimateRevealingPerilOur PlanetUrgency Author:James Hansen