The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
Quotations
Future
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-Winston S. Churchill
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
And in today already walks tomorrow.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
