Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Sheehy

In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

Francois Hollande

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.

Without the people you have no union. ... Without the laborers this country wouldn't be what it is.

Bjork

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Bjork

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to. It's sort of a contradiction, but that's how it works somehow.

Chuck Hagel

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Bill Nelson

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

Barry Ritholtz

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Ahmed Zewail

Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.

Adam Hochschild

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Danny Glover

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

Carl Schurz

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Bob Menendez

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

Barry McCaffrey

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

I want to produce a country album for a country singer.

Anupam Kher

As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

Anthony Atala

We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

Andrew Cohen

This really says something about the role of science education in this country and begs us to question how we are teaching evolutionary theory.

The Philippines is one country where politics matter." ()

The Philippine government is deeply satisfied with the talks. We see on the horizon growing popular support in Mindanao and in the entire country for this peace process.

For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.

We see much more of a structural shift happening in Germany than we do in any other European country. We've spent a lot of money there.

We're the only place like this in the country. I did a lot of research on it.

Andrew O'Hagan

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.

Antony Beevor

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

Ahmed Zewail

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided.

Ahmed Zewail

Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.

Brittany Bowe

I remember that the first country I visited was Canada, and then France. After that, I knew that I loved traveling and seeing the world. I feel that I'm so blessed and fortunate to get to visit so many places and see the world.