Al Gore Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

  Al Gore

  Children, Future, Vision

• We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

  Al Gore

  Children, Believe, Choices

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.368, Routledge

• The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

  Al Gore

  Children, Real, Rain

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.16, Routledge

• The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.

  Al Gore

  Children, Men, Symbolism

• Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth.

  Al Gore

  Children, Cutting, Growth

• I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

  Al Gore

  Encouragement, Children, Couple

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

• Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

  Al Gore

  Religious, Children, Years

• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

• I've kind of fallen out of love with politics. ...Whatever experience and talents I've gained over the years -- I think it may well be that the highest and best use of that is to try to bring enough awareness of the solutions to the climate crisis and enough of a sense of urgency that we come together across party lines on behalf of our children.

  Al Gore

  Children, Party, Thinking

  "Gore: I've 'fallen out of love with politics'". edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.

• What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

  Al Gore

  Children, Might, Granted

  "An Inconvenient Truth". www.imdb.com. 2006.

• Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.

  Al Gore

  Children, Impact, Average

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.308, Routledge

• I was born a poor black child.

  Al Gore

  Children, Black, Jerk

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