While we can remember the past we cannot write the future. Only our children the future of our community can do that.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can and to help future generations learn new skills.

In a time of tight budgets difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach and how we live.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment the more devastating future disappointments will be.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.