While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. Jonathan Sacks
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs. Jonathan Kozol
Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring. will.i.am
If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future. will.i.am
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future. will.i.am
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. Thomas Mann
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. Jessamyn West
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. Gerald R. Ford
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today. Penelope Keith
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. Iain Duncan Smith
When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake. Nate Silver
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. Jean Rostand
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. Jean Rostand
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? Thomas a Kempis
Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future. Carol Bellamy
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. Lewis Thomas
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. Lewis Thomas
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. Lewis Thomas
The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. Lewis Thomas
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.' Lindsay Lohan