Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Benedict

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Bernard Cornwell

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Ben Stein

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Adam Savage

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Alberto Manguel

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Khaled Mashaal

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Henry Mancini

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Jack L. Chalker

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

Lorrie Fair

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

George W. Bush

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

George Lopez

A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund.

Eric Dickerson

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

Pete Rose

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.