Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Rusk

Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Eduardo Galeano

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread ...

Thomas Ryan

Let him sit here in his skivvies while we get him a new suit if they want to play like that.

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Jack Nicholson

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Aubrey de Vere

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.

William Shakespeare

I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

Charles Dickens

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.