Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Stanley

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

David Hillery

There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them.

Cristina Saralegui

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

James Madison

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

Lord Acton

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.

Jim McCrery

The behavior of the minority warranted the sergeant at arms being called.

Marisa Williams

It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.

George Clooney

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

Kenneth Clark

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

George Mason

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Marisa Tomei

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

Newt Gingrich

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Newt Gingrich

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by....

Malcolm X

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.