Quotes by Future And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children. Leo Tolstoy futurebelievechildren Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children. No other Western industrialized nation has widespread hunger within its borders. We really must put an end to hunger in the United States if we are to keep our prosperity and protect the future. Linda Gray futurecountrychildren Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. Lord Dunsany futuretreasurereality I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society. Lord Kelvin moleculesfutureexpectations [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea. Loren Eiseley futuresciencemoving Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present. Loren Eiseley futurephilosophylife Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me. Lorraine Hansberry futurewaitingsometimes Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it. Loudon Wainwright III doomsdayfutureifs I fear there will be no future for those who do not change. Louis L'Amour future Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology. Louise J. Kaplan futurelawpast The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence. Louise J. Kaplan futuresignificant-changesafety The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley futurememoriescountry I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow. Lu Xun futuredarkbelieve I maintain that the biggest challenge in the new millennium could be a change of habit. We could change from a dominating commodity culture into one of true exchange in which we learn from each other in humility and respect. I do think it's possible. But it's up to us. Luisah Teish futurerespecthumility Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past. Lyman Abbott batteriesfuturepast There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps. Lyndon B. Johnson futuregrandchildrenorder The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future. M. E. W. Sherwood academiafutureintellectual We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow. Lyndon B. Johnson populationfuturewater The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual. Lyndon B. Johnson futuregreatnessyesterday Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. Lyndon B. Johnson futurestarswar«2627282930313233343536»
