Barack Obama Quotes
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
Quotes to Explore
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
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On the same day as I started to keep my own pillow-book - I met my future husband for the first time. I was six, he was ten. We did not exchange a word. He had been hand-picked by my father's publisher.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
