Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Blakey

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Buchwald

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Azim Premji

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azar Nafisi

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

Azar Nafisi

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Ayelet Waldman

Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

Ayn Rand

There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.

We decided to focus on countries that have a big nuclear program.

We really don't know about the ramifications of those two countries saying no to the proposed deal.

We really don't have money in a rural county like this.

Craig Venter

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

We're a relatively poor county when you take away the Illinois people and the summer people. The regular, normal people around here don't have that much money.

We hear that Dolly Parton was in town eating dinner at a restaurant, or other country music stars doing this and that.

James Young

Yes, it was painted over again. I'm hopeful it will survive through the 14 days (displays can stand) . . . Free speech in Polk County is very interesting.

Yahoo Inc. is continuously seeking to expand and deepen our global footprint in countries such as Korea. As such, we are currently not involved in any discussions to sell Yahoo Korea.

Charles Evers

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

Charles Evans Hughes

The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles.

Charles Evans Hughes

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

Charles Bukowski

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

Charles Bukowski

We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

We have reached a solution to the problem. We feel a huge satisfaction at having liberated the country from a truly difficult situation.

Abdullah Gul

We have reached a historic point, ... Turkey will be the only Muslim country in EU.

We have plenty of guys on offense who can play, we just need to find 11 who can do it together. I'm not sure they were on the field enough last week to know how they fit together. James Johnson ran 65 yards on a counter for the first play of the drive, so what can I say? I can't get mad at my offense for scoring too quickly.

We've shown the critics we're a better team than they say. We can leave the country with our heads high.

We've shown a person that's been virtually all over this country and in foreign countries with no residence, no real permanency any place .... just an unidentified person moving around, unnoticed.

John Breaux

We've seen this many, many, many times, ... I mean, it's getting to be a punishment for this whole country and for those of us who have to sit there as well.

We've won three games in a row with Cocke County up Monday and we've got a little momentum, which is what we're looking for heading into the district run.

We have room for some contingencies, but when you count all the (projected) expenditures we don't have a lot of room.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?

The fact of the matter is all countries are going to have to wake up to the fact that this is destroying marine habitats.

We have social security numbers and we count each other. Coyotes are just the opposite. They don't have social security numbers and they don't line up nicely.