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To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.
— Sarita Choudhury
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
— Al Pacino
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
— Bruce Dickinson
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
— David Walliams
I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.
— Jimmy Chin
The whole thing for me is that I did 'Full House' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos,' and I look like a dentist, and I'm a dad. Being known as a dirty comedian turned into this weird thing. It's people's image of me.
— Bob Saget
My dad always jokes that we should have a reality TV show because my friends and I pull crazy stunts, like putting Saran Wrap on the toilet.
— Sofia Richie
I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.
— Sofia Richie
I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.
— Courtney Love
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
— Fred Allen
My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.
— Willie Geist
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
— Roger Federer
All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
— Oliver North
My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.
— Sasha Grey
La Mancha is a very macho, chauvinistic society. I saw very clearly that my life had to be in Madrid, and I liberated myself from my mum and dad after high school.
— Pedro Almodovar
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
— Jean de La Fontaine
I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
— Kiefer Sutherland
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
— Patrick Stump
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to 'The Standard.'
— Anna Wintour
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
— Bella Thorne
I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the shows I can watch over and over again are cartoons like 'Bob's Burgers' and 'American Dad' and 'Rick & Morty.'
— Ross Butler
Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.
— Julia Restoin Roitfeld
I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.
— Nicole Scherzinger
My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.
— Burgess Owens
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
— Thierry Henry
To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.
— Thierry Henry
I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.
— James Caan
I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.
— Cullen Bunn
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.
— Giancarlo Esposito
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.
— Bill Burr
When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
— Joe Frazier
When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
— Adam DeVine
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
— Suzanne Collins
What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!
— Terence
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
— James Levine
These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'
— Kid Cudi
My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.
— Thom Browne
I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.
— Troian Bellisario
I like wearing my dad's sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby.
— Troian Bellisario
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
— Bobby Orr
I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.
— Michael Fassbender
All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.
— Jim Gaffigan
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
— Jay London
My dad used to tell me, 'Look, son, opportunity does not come knocking.' It's usually running down the street, and you have to chase it down, you have to tackle it, and then you have to hang on to it.
— David A. Clarke, Jr.
Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.
— Shreya Ghoshal
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
— Camryn Manheim
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
— Michael Reagan
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
— Michael Reagan
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
— Annette Funicello
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
— Angela Carter
No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
— Christie Hefner
My father loved people, children and pets.
— Tony Visconti
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
— Jennifer Ellison
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
— Janis Joplin
I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
— Yancy Butler
I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.
— Rory Kinnear
I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
— Monica Seles
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
— Charley Pride
I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
— Tom Hardy
I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
— Dave Mustaine
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
— Mira Sorvino
When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
— Colin Hanks
My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.
— Nina Conti
The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.
— Topher Grace
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
— Tabatha Coffey
I didn't always want to be a dad.
— Liam Gallagher
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
— Jennifer Lawrence
Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? Ya betcha. Can I do Fix-It Felix? Ya betcha. But I don't want to just play southern characters, so I hide it; I bury it. I tamp it down like a secret. Like a dirty little secret.
— Rob Huebel
I'm being a dad and a good husband.
— Chad Smith
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
— John Lithgow
When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
— Bruno Tonioli
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
— Slash
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
— Star Jones
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
— Simon Newcomb
I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.
— Jennifer Grant
I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons.
— Jennifer Grant
My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry.
— Steven Adams
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
— Norman Lear
I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
— Bam Margera
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
— Pat Summitt
I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'
— Robert Pattinson
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
— Paul Reiser
I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.
— Jake Owen
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
— Christine Keeler
I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.
— Ron Reagan
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30ft high stone wall to keep it out?
— Neil Marshall
I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
— Fred Korematsu
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.
— Anthony Quinn
When I stopped playing hockey and started acting, the last person I was going to ask for help was my dad. He's the king of being like, 'I don't know. It's good work if you can get it. Good luck.'
— Wyatt Russell
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
— Questlove
You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.
— Charles Schwab
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
— Nate Robinson
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.
— William Petersen
My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.
— Joe Lando
Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.
— Eric Trump
I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.
— Liv Tyler
I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.
— David Cone
My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to.
— Kevin Love
I was lucky. A lot of people have that. People that don't tell you what you want to hear, but what's best for you. I was blessed with great friends. I was always blessed that way. My dad always kept good people around me. I just got lucky. Because of the spotlight you're in, people are scared to tell you otherwise.
— Kevin Love
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
— Candace Parker
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
— Prince Charles
I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
— Ed Miliband
I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.
— Robert Sean Leonard
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
— Wilt Chamberlain
I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
— Jon Hamm
I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
— Lindsay Fox
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
— Lou Brock
I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
— Aaron Johnson
Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
— Gavin O'Connor
I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'
— Rachel Keller
My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
— Marc Davis
I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
— Buddy Valastro
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
— Broderick Crawford
A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.
— Jason Sudeikis
On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.
— Michael Foreman
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
— Sally Pearson
My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
— Damon Wayans
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
— Cindy Sherman
When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.
— Tim Finchem
Just growing up, my dad always told me the most important point of the game is the extra point. A lot of people take that play off. It's an opportunity to make something happen, and I'm going to make the most of it.
— Eric Berry
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
— Frank Iero
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
— Dinah Shore
My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'
— Mario Van Peebles
When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
— Jerry Doyle
One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'
— Sean Maguire
My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.
— Petra Stunt
I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.
— Portia Doubleday
I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
— Ty Burrell
I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.
— Tyler Posey
I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.
— Tristan MacManus
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
— Victor Borge
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
— August Strindberg
Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
— Oliver Hudson
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
— Oliver Hudson
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.
— Lindi Ortega
I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.
— Dominik Garcia-Lorido
I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
— Leander Paes
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
— Tom Bosley
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
— Daisy Donovan
I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.
— Cody Horn
I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.
— Pablo Schreiber
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
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.
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
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
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
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
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
— Errol Flynn
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
— Kent Nerburn
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
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
— Anna Lee
My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.
— Miranda Leek
Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.
— Herbert Kaufman
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
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
— Robert Bly
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
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
— Margaret Turnbull
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
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
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
— Abraham Lincoln
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
I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
— Mike Rowe
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
— Mike Murdock
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
— Alan Lakein
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
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
— Winston Churchill
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
— Malcolm X
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
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
— Bob Marley
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
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
— Loretta Lynch
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
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
— Oprah Winfrey
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
— Confucius
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
— Graham Greene
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
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
— Maya Angelou
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
If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.
— Tony Cardenas
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
— Simon Sinek
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
— Michelle Obama
Innovation is the calling card of the future.
— Anna Eshoo
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
The future of advertising is the Internet.
— Bill Gates
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
— Jack Welch
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
— Alan Watts
Only you can control your future.
— Dr. Seuss
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
Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.
— Paul Hawken
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
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
— Stephen Hawking
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
— Gianni Versace
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
— Bob Marley
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
Social media... it's the future for the new generation.
— Cameron Dallas
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
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
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
— James Joyce
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
— Eckhart Tolle
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.
— Andrew Carnegie
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
— Marshall McLuhan
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
— Roh Moo-hyun
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
— Niels Bohr
Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.
— Fujio Mitarai
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
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
— John P. Kotter
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
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
— Oscar Wilde
I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
— Ray Bradbury
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
— Winston Churchill
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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
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
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
— Danielle Steel
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
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
— Bill Cosby
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
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
— Thor Heyerdahl
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
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
— Peter Drucker
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
— Zora Neale Hurston
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
— Frederick Douglass
You have to focus on the future and know that you can succeed in life, and you have to keep working hard.
— Dele Alli
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
— Samuel de Champlain
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
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
If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.
— Elon Musk
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
I got a bright future ahead of me.
— Justin Bieber
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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
A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
— Bo Bennett
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.
— Henry B. Eyring
Leaders don't look backwards to condemn what has already been done they look forward to create a better future. 
— Mark Cuban
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
— George Orwell
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
— Hugh Hefner
People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. 
— Eckhart Tolle
I really believe in the idea of the future.
— Zaha Hadid
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
— Winston Churchill
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
— Jack Horner
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
— Sylvia Earle
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
— George Burns
I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.
— Dhani Jones
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
— Heinz Guderian
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
— Charles Darwin
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
— Kimberly Caldwell
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
— Hannah Arendt
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
— Jim Rohn
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
— Warren Bennis
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
— Heather Brooke
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
— Henri Nouwen
I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
— Narendra Modi
The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast we all have an opportunity to create the future together. 
— Ryan Bethencourt
I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.
— Mother Angelica
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
— Marya Mannes
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
— Jay Weatherill
Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.
— Douglas Conant
Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.
— John Lydon
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.
— Indra Nooyi
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
— Albert Einstein
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
— Sitting Bull
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
— Alexis Herman
To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
— Wilfrid Laurier
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
— Gunter Grass
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
— Ulrich Beck
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
— Dorothy Dix
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
— Stan Musial
Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.
— Apolo Ohno
I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.
— Jose Andres
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
— Edward Kennedy
The future ain't what it used to be.
— Yogi Berra
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
— Angela Merkel
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.
— Hillary Clinton
Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don't rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That's your job.
— Mark Cuban
I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
— Michael Jordan
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
— Seneca
We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.
— Thurgood Marshall
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
— Peter Singer
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
— James Buchan
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
— Horace
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
— Ulysses S. Grant
There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.
— Jan Vogler
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
— Carl Jung