“Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason children are the future is not that they will one day be grownups. No, the reason is that mankind is moving more and more in the direction of infancy, and childhood is the image of the future.”

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera - “Children, you are the future,' he said...” 1

Similar quotes

“People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.”

Wilhelm Reich
Read more

“God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.”

Paulo Coelho
Read more

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Patrick Rothfuss
Read more

“Ben Says: The more we educate & empower our children...the better & greater the future of humanity will be! Let's start today. Timothy PinaBullying Ben”

Timothy Pina
Read more

“These children are our future. We were children once. All of us were. Bad bloods are an evolution. They are a mutation, not a disease, and we will all have these special abilities one day. Are we going to kill all of our children then? Are we going to kill our future? Because that is what we are heading towards. A dead future.”

Shannon A Thompson
Read more