Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can and to help future generations learn new skills.

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.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis the balance of power war and peace and the economic future of the next generation.

An author is a fool who not content with boring those he lives with insists on boring future generations.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Use your lives wisely my friends and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.