Quotes About Future

I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter. Some cite its subject matter, the American Dream, to justify this distinction. We in ancient countries have our past--we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

According to the report of the UN's Bruntlandt Commission of 1987, which might be credited with first popularizing the term, sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The past can never change but future is still in your power

Try to firm up happiness future

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

is by no means improbable that some future text-book, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet.

So, what's our next move?" He grinned. "I know what I'd like mine to be.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Dr. Emmett Brown Roads Where we're going we don't need roads.

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.

I know I can't rap forever, but I know as long as I got a label or something I can get money forever.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing population.

The world today is changing rapidly, and we are helping to make it better for our children's future.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.

As a child, I did not dream of being a rapper.

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.