Abubakar Bukola Saraki Quotes

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

So moderates of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our pessimism. Either we make the future bury the past, or the bad guys will ensure that the past buries the future.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

I try and move with the times. If I stop and begin thinking about the past there will be a problem.

The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.

We can't be beholden to the past.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.