“The future ain't what it used to be.”
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes, Hyperion, 2002, ISBN 0786867752, p. 159.
Paul Valery (1937): "The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.". Translated in English in 1948 in Our Destiny and Literature.
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American baseball player, manager, coach 1925–2015Related quotes
“It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.”
"The Roads We Take"
Whirligigs (1910)
“The future was not what it used to be.”
Source: Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 156)
Mercy Mercy Me.
Song lyrics, What's Going On (1971)
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
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“The bloody future. What’s it ever done for us?”
Source: Paradox Resolution (2012), Chapter 17 (p. 172)
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you”
Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), I Shall Be Free No. 10
“We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.”