Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Mallon

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

Nicholas Kristof

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.

E. O. Wilson

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Vaclav Klaus

But the Civic Forum has put me in a very visible position, and I expect that I will be in the parliament after the June elections.

Eddie Quinn

Number one, that civic center's got to go,

Jim Calhoun

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

Brian Callaghan

No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, police, youth leaders, churches, different civic groups, parents, schools, and the kids themselves all have the responsibility to keep kids safe. We all own it.

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Bruce Steinbecker

We have to have a short memory and be able to come back ready to play (today). We have to learn from our mistakes, and hopefully we'll get it fixed.

Arun Jaitley

We have narrowed down the differences and are hopeful of reaching an understanding very soon.

Dee Bell

We have so many weapons on this team, we hope they'll just pick their poison on defense.

Tom DeLay

What the Senate passed is a nationalized system; what we hope to pass is a federalized system.

Steve Forbes

What the Republican establishment hoped would be a runaway did not happen, ... They wanted to shut down the race.

Laura Bush

When you see all these people working on it, I feel hopeful that people will be reunited,

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Megan Snow

We want our furniture. If we can't get our furniture, we hope to get our money back.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Charles Studd

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Carlos Gutierrez

We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.

Richard G. Scott

No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.

David Kim

The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

Terri Smith

We want them to know missions are not just something in Africa; they can be done right next door.

Carolyn Porco

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Just because you're in the missionary position don't make you no missionary.

M. Wolfe

There is no mission to Broadway, it's (there) just to make money,

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Karen Woodall

You have to restore the outreach and you have to be in the community.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Carlos Pena, Jr.

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Carlos Castaneda

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Carl Guardino

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Crawford

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Agnes Repplier

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Agnes Repplier

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

Agnes Repplier

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.