We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)
How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.
As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.
Past failures unlock future successes
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.
The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.
All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.
I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.
Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.