3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
3 December 2020 Red Auerbach To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
3 December 2020 Marian Wright Edelman Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
3 December 2020 Rick Danko By doing something positive in this world, you’re helping people and the future. We’re all trying to help the world… make it a better place to live. We’re actually still changing the world, aren’t we?
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
3 December 2020 Alan Dundes In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
3 December 2020 Maggie Q Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children’s children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we’ll do what we’ve always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.
3 December 2020 Scott Walker I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.
3 December 2020 Jean de La Fontaine A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
3 December 2020 Eugene Forsey I have long considered it one of God’s greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
3 December 2020 Patrick Swayze I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
3 December 2020 Ben Okri The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
3 December 2020 Ed Markey Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
3 December 2020 Jack Welch If GE’s strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
3 December 2020 Patti Stanger A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you’ve talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
3 December 2020 John Grisham And that’s the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
3 December 2020 Herman Melville There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
3 December 2020 Mattie Stepanek Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
3 December 2020 Fred Rogers Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
3 December 2020 Bob Riley 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.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Horowitz My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
3 December 2020 William James If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
