Public education is an investment in our future.
~By Matt Blunt ~
The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.
~By Mike Farrell ~
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
~By Alan Lakein ~
The future is much like the present, only longer.
~By Dan Quisenberry ~
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
~By Yoshiro Mori ~
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.
~By Patty Duke ~
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
~By Stendhal ~
The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
~By Ellen Key ~
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
The future is now.
~By Nam June Paik ~
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
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.
~By Jane Addams ~
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
~By William Bennett ~
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
~By Bob Riley ~
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
~By Marta Kristen ~
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
~By Zac Efron ~
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~By Graham Greene ~
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
~By Ann Plato ~
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
~By Larry Bird ~
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
~By Maria Montessori ~
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
~By Al Goldstein ~
As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
~By Karl Rahner ~
Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.
~By Tim Scott ~
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
~By F. L. Lucas ~
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
~By Jean Rostand ~
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
~By Steven Wright ~
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
~By David R. Brower ~
Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.
~By Winslow Homer ~
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
~By Dee Hock ~
We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
~By Herb Kohl ~
It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.
~By Kent Conrad ~
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
~By Virginia Gildersleeve ~
We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
~By Mike Curb ~
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
~By Bobby Darin ~
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
~By Amy Grant ~
I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
~By Charles Schumer ~
So not only do we need to deal with threats as they emerge, we have to be thinking in anticipation of future threats, and the things we do have to be things that enable the system to continue to work.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.
~By Roger Wicker ~
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
~By Jacques Delors ~
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
~By Jean Rostand ~
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
~By Paula Cole ~
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
~By John Holt ~
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
~By William Gibson ~
The future is the worst thing about the present.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.
~By George Wald ~
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
~By John Hutton ~
They gave each other a smile with a future in it.
~By Ring Lardner ~
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
~By Jennie Jerome Churchill ~
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
~By Frederick W. Taylor ~
We have the fact we sell out every week to 67,500 and hopefully 75,000 in the future. We have a lot of assets.
~By David Gill ~
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
~By Ayn Rand ~
At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
~By Tim Conway ~
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
~By Juliette G. Low ~
Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit.
~By David Vitter ~
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
~By Alan Watts ~
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
~By Red Auerbach ~
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
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