Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future because to live consists inexorably in doing in each individual life making itself.

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.

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.

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 task of a university is the creation of the future so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

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.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.