Jimmy Carter Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Veterans Day, Peace, Children

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Peace

  Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jimmy Carter (1988). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, Bantam

• We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Jesus, Children

  Interview, 16 Mar. 1976

• [Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Years, California

• The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Selfish, Years

• I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mother, Country, Children

• In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, Growing Up

• Jesus never mentions abortion. But I think that Jesus did care for the unborn child, I think that Jesus did care for people who were completely helpless, who depend on others for their life and livelihood. I just believe that this should be minimized if possible.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Children, Believe

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, America

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family.

  Jimmy Carter

  Girl, Children, School

  "Losing my religion for equality". www.theage.com.au. April 27, 2017.

• I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but they are very careful to avoid any engagement in war, they are basically a peaceful country, which gives them another advantage over the United States when we are much more inclined to go to war for various reasons.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, War

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

• Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Doubt, Doe

  Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

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