Quote by Anna Quindlen
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can

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

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There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. – Anna Quindlen

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen

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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. – Anna Quindlen

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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. – Sophocles

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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future. – Bob Riley

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No ones played on the moon yet. No ones played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but wed very much like to do that in the near future. – Brandon Boyd

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

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