There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. KennedySee, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
Joel OsteenThe purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin PowellI was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.
Kevin GatesYou probably don’t need more weapons than what’s required to destroy every city on earth. There’s only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons – well, we’ve got more than 25,000!
Carl SaganRight now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
Michelle ObamaThe United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
Fidel CastroWhen I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.
Anthony BourdainMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaI can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
Audrey HepburnMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliI think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham LincolnI almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel CastroAdults are obsolete children.
Dr. SeussThe best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. TrumanMy fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.
Kevin HartI think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.
Angelina JoliePeople who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgI am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.
Madeleine AlbrightI can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.
Joe BidenOne-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Will RogersI’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.
Barack ObamaOver the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Barack ObamaIn order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.
Bill GatesEvery citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
Fidel CastroI’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.
Elon MuskI’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.
Neil ArmstrongI was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerEver since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
Jimmy CarterI think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
Barack ObamaI don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
Colin PowellThe deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
Alice MunroI worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.
Russell M. NelsonFor unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore RooseveltUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
Noam ChomskyEverything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.
Angelina JolieA number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
Noam ChomskyMy mother insisted that her children read.
Jimmy BuffettThe distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo MachiavelliUnder Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
Noam ChomskyIn the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.
Noam ChomskyThe United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin PowellUndoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.
Noam ChomskyThose who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
AristotleWe make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.
Russell M. NelsonThe events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.
Noam ChomskyIn our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
Pope FrancisTreat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.
John KennedyTo say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.
Noam ChomskyWhen I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam SandlerThe greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
Madeleine AlbrightOf all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius CiceroFidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Noam ChomskyChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous HuxleyIf the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret AtwoodUntil we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill GatesRight after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘
Noam ChomskyIf you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. Nixon