Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

In many ways, I think about the possibility that there could still be a Yes in 100 or 200 years from now, just like a live symphony orchestra.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

Football does not stop. Spanish football is proud of its past, but we will look to the future.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.