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“This will be the greatest legacy that we can proudly leave behind for our next generation, let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I went from, "O.K., he’s president" to "How can I get to be in his orbit?" — to "How can I have a say in what’s going to happen today, tomorrow and next week?”
Lindsey Graham (1955–2026) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "How Lindsey Graham Went From Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick" by Mark Leibovich, in The New York Times (25 February 2019)
“If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.”
W. C. Handy (1873–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And, I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone -- and you will not be.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Larry King Live television program (September 9, 2005)
“Those who are scorned today are tomorrow's visionaries. (conclusion)”
Amy Goodman (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tonight you're mine completely, You give your love so sweetly Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, But will you love me tomorrow?”
Carole King (born 1942) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1960), Co-written with Gerry Goffin, first recorded by The Shirelles, later by Carole King
“I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of, So tell me now and I won't ask again, Will you still love me tomorrow?”
Carole King (born 1942) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1960), Co-written with Gerry Goffin
“Is there anything more powerful than Google? And our government is in bed with them, as we will show you tomorrow, in unbelievable ways. Unbelievable ways. We have, um, and have had for a while, people inside of Google who have alerted this program to things. There are people inside of Google who are terrified of some of the things that Google is doing and is involved in.”
Glenn Beck (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.”
Bode Miller (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Public Square, by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things 1996
“We'll continue tomorrow — if I live.”
Paul Erdős (1913–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Common remark when breaking off work for the night, as quoted in "The Magician of Budapest" in The Edge of the Universe : Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons (2007) by Deanna Haunsperger and Stephen Kennedy, p. 111
“No nation would refuse to fight an invading army because some expert argued it would be cheaper to invest in defenses against future invasions. It is not a matter of prioritising lives now over lives tomorrow.”
Epeli Ganilau (1951–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.”
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five", "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry", 0:26:09)
“Suddenly I found that I'd lost my way in this city / The streets and the thousands of colours all bleed into one I'm having trouble just finding some soul in this town Coz all they can do to be part of the queue in this town 'Be no tomorrow' they say / Well I say 'More's the pity'”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one is safe from religious ideas and confessional phenomena. Neither you nor I. We can fall victim to them when we least expect it. It's like Mao flu, or being struck by lightning. You're utterly helpless. Exposed. As I see it today, any relapse is utterly out of the question. But I can't say it's out of the question tomorrow.”
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.”
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 96
“We've all got royal blood in our veins, you know. It's the best place for it in my view. We've all got a little bit of royal blood in our veins, we're all in line for the succession, and if nineteen million, four hundred thousand, two hundred and eight people die, I'll be king tomorrow. It's not very likely but its a nice thought and helps keep you going.”
Peter Cook (1937–1995) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Royalty" (1964)
“The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.”
Jean-Louis Gassée (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suspect sometime tomorrow that Mike and I will both get phone calls, and one of us will be packing our bags to go to New York and the other one will be going to watch it on TV.”
Newt Gingrich (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.”
Jack White (born 1975) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chonin, Neva (2005). "White Stripes huge but not bloated" SFGate.com (accessed June 19, 2007)
“I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.”
“Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm packin' up my shit, as much shit in the car as I can fit And I'm just drivin' as far as I can get Away from these problems 'til all of my sorrows I forget What's tomorrow like? 'Cause tonight I'm startin' life again Get to the corner and stop, fuck am I goin'? Besides psycho when I fantasize startin' my whole life over”
“If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?”
John von Neumann (1903–1957) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Passing of a Great Mind" by Clay Blair, Jr., in LIFE Magazine (25 February 1957), p. 96
“Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still? I'll wake you tomorrow, and you will be my fill, Yes, you will be my fill”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power'" by Norman Cousins (Norton, 1987), from At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995 (Norton, 1997, ), Part II: Cold War in Full Bloom, p. 118
“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief. Tomorrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today is different, and tomorrow the same. It's hard to take the world the way that it came. Too many rapids keep us sweeping along. Too many captains keep on steering us wrong. It's hard to take the heat. It's hard to lay blame. To fight the fire, while we're feeding the flames. -- Second Nature (1987)”
Neil Peart (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What keeps me going is that I could die tomorrow so I’m always trying to live every day. source”
Chris Martin (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments on a performance of "Ball and Chain" Festival Express (1970)
“I predict that, if anarcho-capitalist institutions appeared in this country tomorrow, heroin would be legal in New York and illegal in most other places. (p.128)”
David Friedman (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can change the world tomorrow. This could be a better place. If you don't like what I'm sayin', Then won't you slap my face.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair, Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations, Through our doubts and frustrations, In my violence and my turbulence, Through my fear and my confessions, And my anguish and my pain, Through my joy and my sorrow, In the promise of another tomorrow, I'll never let you part, For you're always in my heart.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But even when I started out with Risky Business and Top Gun came out, there was the paparazzi. You knew them, and I could go up to them and say, 'Give me a break tonight. I'll give you the shots tomorrow'.”
Tom Cruise (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises, all you have to say to yourselves is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can get just so much From a good thing. You can linger too long In your dreams. Say goodbye to the Oldies but goodies. You know the good ole days weren't always good, And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Honey don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow. You know you won't feel this way tomorrow. Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges, Inside a little hollow. I get faced with some things sometimes That are so hard to swallow.”
Tom Petty (1950–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love your self's self where it lives. There is no special God to refer to; or if there is, why did I let you grow in another place. You did not know my voice when I came back to call. All the superlatives of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fact: death too is in the egg. Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat. And tomorrow the O.R. Only the summer was sweet.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So why would you care To get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, Such a happy human race. Eat, drink and be merry, For tomorrow we die.”
Dave Matthews (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now let's make this an evening Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Stay here with me, love, tonight. Just for an evening When we make Our passion pictures. You and me twist up, Secret creatures. And we'll stay here. Tomorrow go back to being friends.”
Dave Matthews (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I switched my motto instead of saying 'fuck tomorrow' that buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto”
“I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to follow cause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow”
“Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.”
Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Yaser Arafat International Airport (19 August 2005)