Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marta Tienda

Significant educational investments will not only foster improvements in their health status, civic engagement and economic productivity, but also contribute to U.S. prosperity.

E. O. Wilson

She just embodied the generation of civic duty. Her zeal and passion never stopped. This isn't like a phase she grew out of.

Thomas Mallon

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

Robert Sternberg

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.

Carolyn Bricklemyer

She's a wonderful mother and role model through her faith and civic involvement and a very special grandmother. She has five grandchildren, and each of them think they're her favorite.

Wole Soyinka

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Georgia Zern

This would be an excellent program for civic groups.

William Strauss

You have these periods when there's a major civic crisis that redefines civic life,

Brian Callaghan

No one community is immune to it. We try to be vigilant and on top of our responsibilities. Fire, police, youth leaders, churches, different civic groups, parents, schools, and the kids themselves all have the responsibility to keep kids safe. We all own it.

Meir Soloveichik

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Oprah Winfrey

For me, she embodied royalty. She was the queen. ... You knew she was a force.

Edward Kennedy

Joe embodied the highest ideals and values of the nation, and public service is a more noble profession because of his life and his example.

Monica Johnson

Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

Heather Murren

He really embodied a lot of what you envision being the highest ideal of being a physician and healer. In that way, he was extraordinary.

William Wordsworth

Visionary power/ Attends the motions of the viewless winds,/ Embodied in the mystery of words.

Chita Rivera

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

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

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.

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.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

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.

Alan Jackson

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

David Giuntoli

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

David Guterson

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

Luke Bracey

'Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being.

Lucas Till

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Elizabeth Moon

I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

Lennon Parham

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

Charles Caleb Colton

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Charles Caleb Colton

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Charles Dickens

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

David Guetta

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Caio Fonseca

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

Ariel Pink

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Ashley Benson

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

David Barry

Since then, we've always been in one phase or another,

Jim Higgins

Phase three is going to be the really tough one. They need phase three to make this a viable company.

John Cook

Phase 2 may have to be altered. It may need to be shrunk because of parking.

Kate Thompson

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Confucius

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Lewis Carroll

Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?

Peter Jackson

Down in New Zealand now, there will be a lot of celebrating,

J. C. Ryle

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

John Dryden

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Tacitus

Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.

Samuel Johnson

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Thomas Aquinas

It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.