To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.