Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Mike Tyson

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
Dave Barry

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
Charles Stanley

The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson

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.
Samuel Johnson

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. Kissinger

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
Angela Merkel

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
Earl Wilson

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana