Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Massey

One-third of all African Americans in the United States live under conditions of intense racial segregation. They are unambiguously among the nation's most spatially isolated and geographically secluded people, suffering extreme segregation across multiple dimensions simultaneously. Black Americans in these metropolitan areas live within large, contiguous settlements of densely inhabited neighborhoods that are packed tightly around the urban core. In plain terms, they live in ghettos.

Online job availability in the UK rose sharply in February, after the slump in January 2006. This is very positive for UK employment overall as demand for workers has clearly increased across the entire range of occupational categories and sectors tracked by the Monster Employment Index UK.

James Hansen

My final obligation is not to Neil... it's not to any of the historical actors, it's to posterity, ... It's to try to tell the story as genuinely and as profoundly as I can for the benefit of readers who don't know the history and for readers who are going to come across this book hundreds of years from now.

Jenna Blum

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

My experience is when moving online, they don't understand the detail and knowledge and discipline you must have across the entire spectrum of e-commerce. It is not a pretty sight the first couple of years. It's really a commitment. You have to have the patience and the dollars to wait it out.

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.

On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.

Joshua Foer

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

Lu Xun

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Kacey Musgraves

I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

Karen Mills

Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.

Karen Mills

We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.

Jim Yong Kim

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.

We want to grow the idea of reading gardens across the country. Our aim is to inspire. We want people to see a neglected plot and envision a reading garden to improve the environment and lives.

Scott Peterson

We want to build a broader base of bipartisan support, both in Washington and across the country.

We are honored that President Clinton will address the delegates who come from across the globe to our conference. President Clinton is a tireless advocate for many of the challenging issues that face mankind such as global health, and ending poverty and hunger in developing nations.

David Nabarro

We did discuss in China as well the importance of trying to restrict movements of chickens from areas that are infected, including across borders.

John Kasich

Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.

Ludacris

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.

Richard Owen

When we first came down here, we had wetlands in front of us. Now you can just walk up and across the sand. It's just filled up.

When we first came across this technology, we made sure there was no gray area, ... We're not going to guess it's OK and do it. We called and made sure.

What we're all going to have to do is ratchet back production capacity, and that's painful, ... Once you swallow that, then you hopefully reach a steady state and lower level of production across the board.

There is a similarity, if I may be permitted an excursion into tenuous metaphor, between the feel of a chilly breeze and the feel of a knife's blade, as either is laid across the back of the neck. I can call up memories of both, if I work at it. The chilly breeze is invariably going to be the more pleasant memory.

There is a serious decline in the overall amount of advertising that's going to be spent overall. We're seeing it across the board.

There is a sense that states are trying to be responsive to the public and its frustration with the size of the illegal immigrant population. It is happening across the board. Traditionally, immigration came to the big six states; now almost every state is grappling with it.

Gordon Taylor

There are no greater football critics than the players themselves. To be recognized by your fellow professionals from across the world is a unique honor. While we respect the many other football awards that are handed out I think it is special to see these results, the very first ballot among the world's players.

There are no easy games in this league. It's pretty even across the board.

There are nine separate ways to win. So with a lot of first-time buyers out there all across the country, don't throw your ticket out just because you didn't win the big jackpot. There are nine other ways to win.

There are nine separate ways to win. So with a lot of first- time buyers out there all across the country, don't throw your ticket out just because you didn't win the big jackpot.

There are nice, healthy builds across the board, even in distillates. Barring a major geopolitical disruption, or things changing with OPEC, there will be pressure to the downside.

Paul Broun

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

John Burnside

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There are few things that have filled me with such breathless awe as flying in the black of night across oceans and continents and looking out my cockpit window upon the infinite glory of millions of stars.