Quotes & Sayings About Investing In Our Youth

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America. — Q'orianka Kilcher

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life. — Judith Viorst

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!'
'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too! — Trisha Ashley

Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the "mystery of the universe" only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all. — Alan W. Watts

Not infrequently, parents fail to help children grasp their responsibility for a community. Often we as parents don't convey to our children that they have obligations to small communities like a sports team or a school choir or a dance troupe. How many of us ever simply mention to our children that a school is not just a place to learn but a community, or that a neighborhood is a community that carries obligations? — Richard Weissbourd

Let's put our money where our mouth is; let's invest in the future by investing in the education of our youth and the re-education of those who need it and aren't so young anymore. It's not charity; it's an investment in the mental, intellectual, and social infrastructure of our country and our planet. Charity is something you give to corporations when they commit crimes of fraud and plunge the world into economic turmoil. — Steve Bivans

Take every breath as an event. — Arzum Uzun

Nobody gives you money for nothing, and that's the lesson with the Clintons. Nobody gives you money because they like you. — Rush Limbaugh

don't look back, you are not going that way — Unkown Author

While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America. — Kitty Kelley

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure. — Mason Cooley

He whose wickedness is very great brings himself down to that state where his enemy wishes him to be, as a creeper does with the tree which it surrounds. — Anonymous

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. — Seneca The Younger

My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your character's come from or where they grew up - you would just get a little bit laughed at. — Jessica Raine