Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Novak

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

Efraim Zuroff

The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

Eric Liu

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

Louis Malfaro

We support an immigration policy that provides a path to citizenship for all workers here. ... We must recognize workers as full members of American society and permanent residents with full rights and full mobility.

Donald Trump

[Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

Hassan Rouhani

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

Jacques Delors

It is impossible to speak of citizenship in Europe without posing the question of the current weakening of democracy within each of our countries.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Peerless Price

Life is funny. It all has come full circle.

William Shakespeare

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Guillermo Coria

Luckily by the end of the match I was able to recover my full speed.

Martin Winterkorn

Last year, we set a sales record. This year we are also going to go full throttle.

Tessa Jowell

Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Ben Shapiro

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

Norman Black

We are making a very substantial proposal here that we think the union members would applaud,

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Bible Bible

Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

Rig Veda

May you be intelligent, provider of wealth and protector of the path of truth.

Rig Veda

One should always speak the truth and tread incessantly on the path of righteousness.

Karl Harrison

I feel really sorry for the players at this time of year. I find it quite pathetic to be truthful.

Ahmet Ertegun

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius distains a beaten path.

Frank Black

I did start down that path some time ago,

Napoleon Hill

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Albert Carlson

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Mark Rey

The quickest way to provide permanent protection is through the development of state-specific rules, not by resuscitating the 2001 rule,

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Charles Elachi

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

Adam Marcoux

I just think it would be more professional to have permanent maps.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Scott McClellan

Dick Clarke, in his own words, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of what he now asserts. This shatters the cornerstone of Mr. Clarke's assertions." ()

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

Willie Davis

If they didn't recognize me as the new owner, that would get me in somehow.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

John Eberle

The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.

Sergei Lavrov

Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

David Boreanaz

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, I got recognized more at home. That's for sure.

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 ...

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Dennis Whitling

My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.

Ron Wilson

Obviously, it was an ugly scene. But I support (Parker) 100 percent.

Dennis Weaver

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Maria Zampaglione

If an outbreak of avian influenza were to be proven, there would be a lot of support needed.

Kevin Browne

If an immigration makes things better for them in the country, we will support it.

Dave Morin

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Abraham Lincoln

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Scott Strauss

I got to support my family. That's how I was raised.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.