Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Butler

Aboriginal printmaking is probably one of the most vital areas of printmaking at the moment,

Doug McArthur

This case is well known and will set a precedent on aboriginal title based on earlier court decisions, as well as establishing the government's role in providing financial support to First Nations for legal costs.

Derek Thompson

It's to give truth to history rather than ignore it, deny it or rationalize it. Somebody died and that somebody was an aboriginal person and that aboriginal person was a child.

John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. Andfew destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much towardrestoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousandyears to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are stillstanding in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mightyforests of the Sierra.

John Muir

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.

Ken Hudson

As an aboriginal person with any kind of dam, whether it's run of the river or not, we have to look at it closely and decide what effects it will have on us.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp

Robyn Bourgeois

The status quo in terms of violence against aboriginal people is silence.

Jane Stewart

This is proof that we are committed to reconciling aboriginal rights in Canada, ... We aren't stuck in the past, we are prepared to evolve.

Craig Roberts

We actually had a lot of requests to bring them back. Rick K. does just about everything as far as all types of music. I call him a cruise ship entertainer. It's a high-energy type of show. ... New Odyssey, they play like 30 different instruments among the three of them. They're a very talented group.

Craig Roberts

We actually had a lot of requests to bring them back, ... Rick K. does just about everything as far as all types of music. I call him a cruise ship entertainer. It's a high-energy type of show. ... New Odyssey, they play like 30 different instruments among the three of them. They're a very talented group.

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

MoliFre

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Moliere

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others

Peter Hain

I take heart in the statements made not just by the IRA leadership but by the president of Sinn Fein in repeatedly condemning criminality and saying it has no part for the future Republicans.

Franklin Graham

I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say.

Greg Smith

This is a valid public purpose. We're condemning this so residents have a grocery store within a reasonable distance of their homes.

Charles Dickens

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Charles Stanley

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

Alan Watts

Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

Alan Watts

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Al Sharpton

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Alan Greenspan

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

Jack McConnell

The possibilities could range from a full evidentiary hearing, a mini-trial, to just arguments on the evidence that exists or something in between." ()

Bernard Goldberg

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

Ahmad Chalabi

We have no evidence they have been killed in that attack. We know at least that Qusay, his son, has survived and he is occupying some houses in the Diyala area,

Neil Johnson

We have no evidence that he is deceased right now. We are hoping for a rescue.

Robert Francis

We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident,

Richard Butler

What there is now is evidence that Saddam has reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program.

Jim Fitzpatrick

There is no medical or scientific evidence that Vioxx contributed to Mr. Humeston's heart attack.

Dr Chan

Until we see further evidence we are still at phase three of the pandemic alert.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Bill Maher

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Brian Cresta

We're so much interested in seeing the younger generation helping the next generation because that generation has been so helpful in the past.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Alex Lee

With today's 60-year-old, it's a very different generation of 60-year-olds than the last generation. These guys are riding motorcycles. The last thing they want is the kind of patronizing, help-me-do-something kind of tools.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Peter Speicher

We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

William Shakespeare

How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena)

Scott Davis

When we get it down low to Ryan, we do pretty good.

John Wilson

We're still recovering bodies, and all the low crossings, the creeks, have flooded,

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bette Midler

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Al Ries

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

Akon

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Mike Butters

We want to see who we're going to keep around next season.

Chris Cooper

I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Denis Leary

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Greg Stuart

We are making a dent, but we are not going to be at 10 percent of total spending by next year.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not.

Charlie Munger

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

Charlie Munger

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

Catherine Crier

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

Earl Browder

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

David Mitchell

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

Bertrand Russell

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.

Cesar Millan

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

Joe Pavelski

The outcomes have been really good. I just like playing here.

Miguel de Cervantes

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Neena Moorjani

We are working toward prompt ratification of CAFTA.

Stephane Dujarric

There is a sense of urgency because it is so perilously late.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Rick Thomas

It is a different world in that the sense of urgency and sense of need is so much heightened.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Jan Egeland

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.