Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are recruiters; we try to raise the awareness of the desperate need for more foster and adoptive parents in our area. By contacting parents directly or enlisting other agencies, government officials and corporations, we try to get them to help enlist potential parents.

Yochai Benkler

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

On the positive side, we learned how important mobility and precision strike and global situation awareness and integrated command and control were. On the negative side, I think we also understand that fratricide or friendly fire continues to be an issue.

One of the good things was the Homeland Security Act, and a real awareness of public safety, ... There was a closer unity of the nation and, most importantly, I believe 9-1-1 brought people closer to their faith.

I wouldn't say that they're gym rats. But there's an awareness that these things are important.

I guess I just started being passionate about it because of Ryan's trip. We learned a whole lot about it. In 1999, we spent the whole summer raising awareness for organ and tissue donation.

James Morrow

Because they're so different, they're totally a reflection of society and where we are, but in performance they also connect us to each other and the audience. We're all different, we're all connected -- how do we unify? How do we find a social awareness that's larger than us?

Because Putnam and Volusia counties have manatee viewing as a spring and summertime tourist attraction, the need to be safe is imperative and the boaters are very cognizant of them being in the water. We are not big fans of people swimming with manatees, but manatee viewing is something everyone should do before they die. It is that awesome. People have a heightened awareness of manatees after actually seeing them.

I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a positive difference here by bringing people into a greater awareness that all different kinds of theater can be made and presented here,

GM is delighted to be able to sponsor the event tonight. We are delighted to bring a lot more awareness to the benefits of ethanol to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity. We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

What we would like to see is when a teammate walks into a locker room and wants to brag about his conquest the night before, that someone would have had their awareness raised around the issues of gender bounds to say, Hey, that's somebody's sister, that's somebody's daughter, that's somebody's friend that you might be talking about. That could easily be our loved one that we care about. And if we don't want our loved ones to be talked about in that way, let's not engage in that kind of conversation about somebody else's loved one.

E. B. White

He's got personality on the field that people respond to. I believe Bernie definitely has raised the awareness of how important the position is. We need to be productive at that position.

He's got great speed, good offensive awareness and great vision. He's just got to get experience, become an elite player at the college level. He'll play in the World Juniors, I suspect, next year and hopefully, he'll become and elite player at that level, too.

He's just so creative in practice. He's one of the fastest, if not the fastest guy in college hockey. He's just got such a good sense of awareness and hockey sense. You've got to realize that he's young and it's tough coming in as a freshman. Even as good as you are, it's an adjustment. He's really caught on here the last couple of weeks and he's just going to get better as the season goes on.

Just to create awareness would be enough, to at least get a debate started.

I suspect the functionality and ease-of-use of these devices lead us to become lazy and to lose awareness of ourselves, others and our surroundings.

It all starts with a commitment to get it right in the eyes of our native advisers and native communities, ... We want to present the material in a way that connects to people and helps them understand native cultures, builds cultural sensitivity, builds cultural awareness and makes them want to go beyond what they've seen.

It builds on their leadership skills and expands on their awareness of the community.

Ronald Jones

It brings more awareness to people who don't understand what diversity is. Hopefully, after this event, they will understand.

There is a growing awareness at all levels of how broken our system is becoming. Health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable. The proposals that have dominated at the federal level are generally counterproductive, including health savings accounts.

There is a greater awareness of what the regulations are.

There is much more awareness now than 10 to 15 years ago that it is a tricky, risky undertaking, and that you have to be good at it. That has led to better execution because people are more thoughtful about it.

The purpose of this display is to create awareness of our population.

The people's voice can be powerful. Public opinion has brought wars to an end. Look at what the people's voice has done on the issue of immigration, raising awareness there.

We try to increase cultural awareness because many people come through Japanese culture through anime.

Human rights and gender awareness are built into the program.

I also want to start my own label, Preservation Collective. I want to raise awareness about the world's last natural resource - intellectual property, compositions. And I'm looking for entrepreneurs to help me do it. I want to take regional icons and turn their music into global mass music sensations.

Larry Walker

He learned a lot on the living room floor. He comes from a wrestling background. He has great body awareness and that's the toughest thing to coach. He knows where he is at at all times and that is developed over a long period of time, from continuing to wrestle.

Carlos Santana

He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and Wayne (Shorter),

He has modified his Elvis songs to reflect conservation awareness.

He holds his own on this team. He's such a good passer, and his court awareness is very good. He can really see the floor, and he's smart as a whip.

He has the best game awareness I've ever seen in a high school football player. Eric really picks up everything from knowing what down it is to how far he needs to go to get the first down. He's our field general.