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We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
BILL CLINTON The youth is the hope of our future.
JOSE RIZAL We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
T.H. WHITE Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
CHARLES B. RANGEL I can build many roads and bridges, but if I don't build a road or bridge for the future of our chil...
COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if...
HENRY KISSINGER While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com...
JONATHAN SACKS How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in ed...
ELIZABETH WARREN We won't allow our elderly to be demeaned. We won't allow anyone else to build our future for our ow...
VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural W...
GABRIEL BRUNSDON Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future g...
RICK PERRY I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, fo...
HESIOD Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES) Youth are our future and the future of hunting and fishing. It is important that we pass down to the...
BRUCE COMPTON The house wasn't for sale, but we wanted to sew it up for our future. We saw the growth at Eagle Ran...
CHARLYN CANADA For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.
MARIANA FULGER We have shown once more with whom we want to build our future, ... Russia is our most reliable partn...
ISLAM KARIMOV For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN Mock our youth. Then we mock ourselves. Our youth are the product of us.
BART A D'ANGELO By signing this treaty ... we showed once again with whom we will build our future. Russia is our mo...
ISLAM KARIMOV Fortunately for us, we can learn from other people, ... We can learn that we cannot build our way ou...
ANN CROWLEY We are the future of our past and the past of our future,,, We dont know what will happen in the fut...
LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU Our capacity will not be able to meet global demand [in the future], if we do not build plants now.
FRANK HUANG We're building, and we're probably better than what we had the last couple of years. Since we got ou...
HOLLY BRUMMETT We need an image change in our community here. If we don't build this today, in the future it'll cos...
COUNCILMAN FRANK LOPEZ We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY We do not see the future of Kosovo linked with Yugoslavia or directed from Belgrade. But we will bui...
HASHIM THACI All Stars is focused on getting youth to talk more deeply about their future.
TRAVIS GRAY We cannot give up hope for the future of humanity because it is our destiny to shape that future for...
ARTHUR HENDERSON The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO We can’t build a new future with old human resources
SUNDAY ADELAJA We felt it tied in with our purpose for Acappellastock. It is a community event, and a community is ...
JEFF PETERSEN He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
ADOLF HITLER We have a need for vocational training in order to build a future workforce.
DOUG HOCK If we are to build for the future and create a modern world for our children and children’s childr...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
MAHMOUD ABBAS We spent our whole youth to obtain wealth and our whole wealth to obtain youth.
UNKNOWN The fact that our kids can get statewide recognition from a small school in a new program bodes well...
DUANE DESPAIN It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support s...
RUBEN HINOJOSA I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Our goal is to get better and build for the future. We're going 11 deep right now, and there's no de...
ERIC LEVIE The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now...
JIM TALENT The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now...
JAMES TALENT By knowing where we plan to build in the future we'll be able to restrict building on land that will...
CLYDE MELICK I go to school - to youth - to learn the future
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MARY ELLEN MARK The best investment is in time, effort, and patience, not in money spent; it's how to guide the futu...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and em...
SHEHBAZ SHARIF On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimi...
KEVIN RUDD Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn...
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ELLEN ULLMAN At the beginning of the new century, our two countries must do their utmost to overcome the legacy o...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF That is how we can do our part in keeping our youth safe and sober.
JANE ALLEVA Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES By denying the youth an education you murder the future
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RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN The present steps will build toward the future.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL We need to plan for our social future, just like we plan for our financial future.
CHRIS SEGRIN But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, on...
LAUREN OLIVER The youth have hope because it's their future they're hopeful about and if they're depressed about t...
JOHN LENNON And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we r...
ELIZABETH WARREN We like our nucleus, the core of young players we have. We'd like to build something here. We want t...
KEN HOLLAND If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.
TONY A. GASKINS JR. Public television works hard to engage young learners and build the skills needed for a jump-start o...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our pre...
CONFUCIUS We have some salt of our youth in us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For the future of our sons, we cannot keep silent in the wake of these findings, ... forfeit the liv...
AZMI BISHARA We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience thei...
BURT RUTAN [''] Some people don't progress; some are just frozen in time, ... But to look at our generation, we...
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GEORGE ABBOTT Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Raising the tobacco tax will generate state revenue, save health care funds, reduce youth smoking an...
JEANETTE SCHATZ We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.
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DALE MITCHELL We're looking at an Aug. 18 completion date for the facility. That's our target date for now. We als...
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BRAD BATES We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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ERBLIN VUKAJ It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up...
PHIL JACKSON We will either adapt and adopt or, like so many others, say 99% of all species, we too will go extin...
JUAN ENRIQUEZ When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves fr...
GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?
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CRAIG MUNDIE We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We shall make the most lasting progress if we recognize that Social Security can furnish only a base...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business,...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I love it--I just love it.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early wor...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the f...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT He (Somoza, the elder in Nicaragua) may be an SOB but he's our SOB
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT