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As soon as I was tall enough, my dad used to let me drive him 60 miles or 70 miles to work. That was pretty fun. My dad was really old. At the time, he was 82 years old. He said, 'Can you drive?' and I said 'Yes.' I guess I didn't find it to be that crazy.

Theo Von

Work, Time, Fun

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.

Damon Wayans, Jr.

Myself, People, You

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Mark Viduka

Good, Humble, Me

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

Chad Lindberg

Time, School, Police

Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.

Roman Romanenko

Business, Thought, Always

I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated me like his son. He gave me the best advice about singing, about this and that... He was a very sensitive man, very astute, one of the sharpest men that I ever met in my life.

Trini Lopez

Life, Best, Father

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Errol Flynn

Father, House, Never

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Kent Nerburn

Father, Become, Easier

My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

Patrick Murphy

Vote, Republican, Mentor

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Anna Lee

Father, Power, Prayer

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Miranda Leek

Me, Trying, Teach

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Herbert Kaufman

Men, Rich, Sons

My dad actually taught me how to do the catwalk because he used to do modeling. He taught me how to do that little swivel at the end.

Sophie Lowe

End, Me, Modeling

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

Children, Home, Father

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Phil Crane

Life, World, Better

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Margaret Turnbull

Father, Mother, Man

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

Zach Cregger

School, Weird, Doing

I always thought that family was the most important thing in life, and no matter what I do, whether being a chef or an actor or a dancer, being a dad is what I do best.

David Burtka

Life, Family, Best

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Today, Responsibility

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

Rachel Boston

Day, Beautiful, Sunset

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

Mike Rowe

Grateful, Past

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Mike Murdock

Daily, Routine, Secret

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Corrie Ten Boom

Memories, Past, Key

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

Planning, Present, You

You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

Olivia Newton-John

Happy, I Am, Being Happy

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Winston Churchill

Past, Lost, Present

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

Today, Prepare, Belongs

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confucius

Trees, People, Plant

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Green, Sustainability

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Bob Marley

Past, Forget, You

What we need to do is always lean into the future when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Jeff Bezos

Wind, Changes, World

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

Road, Destiny, Person

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life, Sacrifice, Walk

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

Loretta Lynch

Responsibility, Protect

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

Christine Gregoire

Children, Legacy, Live

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

Oprah Winfrey

Eyes, Look, Bright

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Confucius

Past, Study, You

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

Childhood, Door, Moment

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

John Kasich

Life, Quality, World

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou

Past, Prejudice, Present

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

David Suzuki

Creativity, Memory

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

Tony Cardenas

Community, Focus, Negative

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Simon Sinek

Challenge, Past, Unknown

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Michelle Obama

Performance, You, Test

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Anna Eshoo

Innovation, Calling, Card

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Susana Martinez

Never Give Up, Parents

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Bill Gates

Advertising, Internet

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch

Destiny, Control, Will

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

Living, Plans, Now

Only you can control your future.

Dr. Seuss

Control, You, Only

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

Giving, Generosity, Present

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Coco Chanel

Elegance, Adolescence, Just

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

Paul Hawken

Life, Game, Generosity

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

John Berger

Man, Ethics, Choices

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Stephen Hawking

Past, Spectrum

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Gianni Versace

Road, I Am, Past

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Bob Marley

Man, Destiny, Right

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

Malcolm Turnbull

Today, Job, Eye

Social media... it's the future for the new generation.

Cameron Dallas

Social Media, Media

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Marcus Aurelius

Rose, Past, You

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Dorothea Dix

Time, Reading, Harvest

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Dalai Lama

Life, Moral, Human

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

Day, Today, I Am

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Eckhart Tolle

Good, Effort, Foundation

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie

Care, Take Care, Little

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

Marshall McLuhan

Mirror, Drive, Rearview

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Roh Moo-hyun

Today, Proud, Remember

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong

School, Practice, Perfect

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

Difficult, Prediction, Very

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

Fujio Mitarai

Globalization, Keys

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Juliette Gordon Low

Happy, Heart, Soul

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

John P. Kotter

Vision, Strategy, Leaders

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Martin Sheen

Political, Party, You

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Past, Darkness, Spirit

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Past, Difference, Sinner

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

Try, Describe, Prevent

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Winston Churchill

Wise, You, See

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Past, Present, Just

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny, Wishes, Two

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

F. Sionil Jose

Influence, Young, Nation

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Fred Rogers

Parents, Past, Bright

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Danielle Steel

Magic, You, See

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.

Heath Ledger

Day, Good, Past

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Walt Whitman

Present, Uncertain, Than

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Bill Cosby

Past, Dream, Ghost

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

Erwin Rommel

Battle, Compromise

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Thor Heyerdahl

Past, Minute, Every

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Peter Drucker

Road, Night, Window

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker

Be Different, Know

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

Past, Present, Egg

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Frederick Douglass

America, Past, Present

You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.

Dele Alli

Life, Focus, Working Hard

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

Samuel de Champlain

Hunting, Engage, Than

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

George Ripley

Good, Justice, Talents

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Jon Bon Jovi

Road, Long, You

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

Elon Musk

Humanity, Mars, Disappointed

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

Anna Quindlen

Culture, School, Listening

I got a bright future ahead of me.

Justin Bieber

Me, Ahead, Bright

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

Children, Past, Enjoy

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Louise J. Kaplan

Struggle, Powerful, Past