“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”– Charles Darwin Related Quotes “Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.”– Sophocles “But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation’s future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.”– Kevin Rudd “The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.”– Jose Marti