Famous Quotes & Sayings

Argus Hamilton

Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Ben Harper

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.

Michele Hiester

Western Pennsylvania is showing signs of job growth but it isn't growing as quickly as what we're seeing in the eastern half of the state.

Marilu Henner

Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.

Peter De Vries

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one." "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.

Marjane Satrapi

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Nicolas Cage

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

N. T. Wright

Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.

Meir Kahane

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Dirk Benedict

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

Dinesh D'Souza

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Chuck Palahniuk

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Chuck Klosterman

Cars are the most central thing in America, in a lot of ways. They've probably influenced the way we live more than anything else, and yet every really big problem - whether it's the environment or who dictates the international economy because of oil - is all tied to cars. Ultimately, cars are bad for civilization. I don't know if they'll end us.

Samir Acharya

We also have plans to set up similar systems in Neil and Havelock islands because the oldest recorded understanding of seismic phenomenon is from these two islands as published in a 1928 study in the Asiatic Society Journal.

Dolly Parton

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Albert Camus

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

Andre Johnson

I just need to go to like an island or something,

Rush Limbaugh

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Tim Bishop

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

Richard Sherman

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Meg Cabot

I've never even been to Long Island

Matthew McConaughey

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.